A Man Cutting Tobacco
by VALCKERT, Werner Jacobsz. van den, Oil on oak panel, 67 x 52 cm
The painting represents an interior with a man wearing a fur hat and cutting tobacco, a lady handing him a pipe. The woman wears an oorijzer, or ‘ear iron’, the metal structure used to support a bonnet. Almost all contemporary depictions show oorijzers worn in conjunction with a bonnet, the present picture is highly unusual in showing the oorijzer worn without a bonnet.