Joos van Craesbeeck

1605–1660 · Baroque

Joos van Craesbeeck (c. 1605/06 – c. 1660) was a Flemish baker and a painter who played an important role in the development of Flemish genre painting in the mid-17th century through his tavern scenes and dissolute portraits. His genre scenes depict low-life figures as well as scenes of middle-class people. He created a few religiously themed compositions.

32 paintings

• The painter's studio (1655)
• The marriage contract (1650)
• A Man Surprised (1635)
• Portrait of a man clasping a drink (1650)
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1650)
• Interior with a peasant family praying (1650)
• Peasants drinking outside an inn (1650)
• Unequal love (1664)
• An officer reading a letter in a military encampment beside the walls of a castle (1650)
• At the Surgeon's (1650)
• A couple drinking wine (1650)
• Interior with an old Woman and a Man Blood-letting (Allegory of the Sense of Touch) (1650)
• A meal in the open air (1650)
• Five Senses (1640)
• The Antwerp Arms", Tavern Scene (1630)
• Flemish Tavern (1647)
• Death is Fierce and Quick (1640)
• The Rumbling Pot (The Friction Drum) (1630)
• Smoking peasants (1633)
• Young Children Playing in a Landscape (1630)
• The Reckoning (1630)
• A peasant grimacing with his arm in a sling (1630)
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1650)
• Dancers in a Tavern (1660)
• Card Players (1645)
• Soldiers and Women (1640)
• Farming in the Inn (1650)
• Child Beggar
• The Smoker (1625)
• The Wedding Contract (1700)
• El terceto burlesco (1601)
• Tobaksrygere (1621-1654)