Youth Making a Face by Adriaen Brouwer https://www.nga.gov/artworks/86204-youth-making-face
Adriaen Brouwer was one of the most expressive artists of the 17th century. His great contribution to genre painting was to give a face to the peasant, to infuse his images of these lower-class individuals with recognizable and vividly expressed human emotions—anger, joy, pain, and pleasure.
Indeed, Brouwer used the peasant’s proverbial uncouthness to create comic images
