Cardplayers in an Inn
by BROUWER, Adriaen, Oil on panel, 34 x 43 cm
When Brouwer established himself in Antwerp after becoming a master there, he introduced the new style of genre, which had developed in Holland, to the Southern Netherlands, where such realistic and simply composed company pictures were not known. Brouwer’s work in Antwerp, including the Cardplayers in an Inn, is marked by an evolution towards a simpler colour palette, in which brownish and grey-green tones become dominant, so that the few local colour accents stand out all the more strongly.