![Gabriel Metsu - Two Men with a Sleeping Woman [c.1655-60] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vVg9_3i51j8zgTXkTzQlf0QHbuxLeLgnCN6FsbAEq6zhiSLeqQlvTLJ7GYbsoJ4dpXQ1nxX_IY7TclrFpyhqvWGafdqifASzildEL5UkZtckow3fK9Xy4D-ztjtnTr0w=s0-d)
An inn-keeper's slate, playing cards and a pipe are among the objects on the table. The setting is probably a tavern. The sleeping woman, the innkeeper's wife or a serving maid, has been drinking and smoking. Female drunkenness was a subject of both amusement and moral admonition in 17th-century Dutch genre paintings.
[Oil on oak, 37.1 x 32.4 cm]
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