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On the right side of the painting, seated behind the second man and to the right of the third, is a boy, eyes cast downward, also a fixed spectator of the game. Further back, on the left side between the first and second player is a man standing, back to the wall, smoking a pipe and presumably awaiting his turn at the table.
Depictions of tobacco smoking in art date back at least to the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, where smoking had religious significance. The motif occurred frequently in painting of the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age, in which people of lower social class were often shown smoking pipes. In European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, the social ...
porcelain pipes: artistically modeled and skillfully painted pipe bowls in European porcelain; meerschaum pipes: tobacco pipes and cigar holders with characteristic shapes and highly artistic carving; wooden pipes: early specimen from various types of wood as well as a survey of the popular briar pipe; other smoking pipes: smoking implements ...
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Man with a Pipe is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 93.7 × 65.4 cm (36.5 by 25.75 inches), signed JMetzinger lower right. The work represents a man sitting at a table upon which is placed a mug of beer. The man, an American according to the title of the work, has his arms crossed and has a pipe in his mouth. He wears a jacket and tie.
He was frequently shown with a pipe: "Photos of him appeared daily in the Soviet press, now in genial pipe-smoking profile, now walking with his comrades..." [18] Mark Twain (1835–1910), American author, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, writer of Huckleberry Finn favored Missouri Meershaum corncob pipes. He was notoriously partial to a special blend of ...
The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time smoking was new and controversial. [3] Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke. [4]