A Man Smoking and Another Man Eating by Candlelight, 1624

  • Willem van der Vliet, Dutch, between 1583 and 1584-1642

Oil on oak (?) panel

  • Unframed: 20 5/8 × 25 3/4 inches (52.4 × 65.4 cm)
  • 28 1/2 × 33 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (72.4 × 85.4 × 5.4 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson

59.449

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed and dated, upper center: W. vander Vliet Fecit A 1624

1959, (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, USA)

Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1959-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Wansing, C.J.A. "Some History and Genre Paintings by Willem van der Vliet." Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury 6 (1987): pp. 3-10 (fig. 1). Sinners & Saints Darkness and Light Caravaggio and his Dutch and Flemish Followers. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art et al. Raleigh, 1998, pp. 37, 236 (fig. 6). Vermeer and the Delft School. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Gallery. New York and London, 2001, p. 56 (fig. 55). Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 242-243.

Willem van der Vliet, A Man Smoking and Another Man Eating by Candlelight, 1624, oil on oak (?) panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Wilkinson, 59.449.