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| Pieter Quast: Kneeling Man with Beret |
Pieter Jansz. Quast (1605 or '06 – buried 29 May 1647) was a
Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman, mostly producing small social genre
paintings, ranging from elegant merry companies to guardroom scenes and (most
numerous) groups of peasants, in a variety of styles which can be related to
those of leading artists in these genres, but with personal aspects in the
colouring and style.
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| Pieter Quast - Beggar with girl in open field |
They "are heavily and powerfully rendered in warm
shades of brown, set off by strong local colouring in the principal figures.
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| Pieter Quast - 5 Senses: Smell |
His successful peasant scenes are characterized by the use of strong
chiaroscuro and a gentle, harmonious palette. The caricatural quality of
Quast’s peasants recalls the work of his fellow-resident of The Hague, Adriaen
van de Venne, but Quast’s looser style and many of his individual types are
closer to the paintings of Adriaen Brouwer, as well as of Adriaen van Ostade,
to whom Quast’s best work has sometimes been ascribed".
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