Attributed To Dominicus Smouts (active 1683 - 1742), Death And The Miser

Attributed to Dominicus Smouts
Flemish painter
Active in Antwerp 1683 - 1742
Death and the miser
Oil on canvas : 65,3 X 82,4 cm
Unsigned
Frame : 79,0 X 95,8 cm

Smouts seems to have regularly painted our subject of a rich miser. He also painted rich interior scenes and detailed representations of artist’s workshops.
Stylistically Smouts stands close to Gerard Thomas and to Balthasar van den Bossche; some of his unsigned works must go hidden under erroneous attributions to these contemporary Antwerp painters. Typical of all three of these Late Baroque painters is the abundant, excessive use of objects and ornaments filling their spaces. Regularly they included an insolate, funny details: here the unexpected visit of Death.

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