The art of the Wallace Collection, including an account of its founders, a description of the pictures, and a survey of the chief exhibits in the galleries devoted to objects of art and arms and armour (1913)
Shelley, Henry C. (Henry Charles) · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 124
th is furnished in AdriaenBrouwers A Boor Asleep, for the implicationof this study in a tavern interior is that the^ fumes have overcome the reposing model. Thisis the only example of Brouwers art in the WallaceCollection, and it is fortunate that it should be sorepresentative of the man and his… … BROUWER. — A BOOR ASLEEP. Dutcb anD if lemisb Cabinet pictures 89 for the story goes that when he could not pay hisreckoning he would dash off a sketch and send itto a dealer for as much ready cash as it would fetch.And it is characteristic of his art because he foundhis favourite themes among the…
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