Jolly Toper
by LEYSTER, Judith, Oil on canvas, 89 x 85 cm
This jovial tippler (a “kannekijker”), smiling at the viewer as he lifts his empty German beer mug, is perhaps a rhetorician who played the role of the inebriate “Peeckelhaering”.
This jovial tippler (a “kannekijker”), smiling at the viewer as he lifts his empty German beer mug, is perhaps a rhetorician who played the role of the inebriate “Peeckelhaering”.