The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in c. 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
The oil-on-wood painting measures 46.4x and is signed by the artist.[2] [3]
The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time smoking was new and controversial.[3] Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke.[4] While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem;[3] the person in the middle is Joos van Craesbeeck; the person depicted blowing smoke out of his nose is painter Jan Cossiers;[3] and Jan Lievens is the person on the far left.