The Shoemaker - David Rijckaert III (1612 - 1661)

Oil on panel
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Ryckaert began his career as a landscape painter. He changed his specialization early on to genre paintings. These show the influence of the leading Flemish genre painters Adriaen Brouwer, David Teniers the Elder, and in particular David Teniers the Younger. His work often depicts interiors with professionals, such as alchemists, quacks, cobblers or painters or inns with peasants. He also painted children at play, celebrations with music and imaginary scenes of witches and ghosts. An example of the latter is the Dulle Griet (Mad Griet) in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, which depicts the folk figure of he Mad Griet, a woman who had defend herself against devils