Wine is a Mocker is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Jan Steen, created in 1663–1664, now in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.

[1] The canvas depicts a scene outside an inn where a well-dressed drunken woman is about to be carried home in a wheelbarrow.

The proverb, written above the door of the inn,[1] reads: "Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise".

[2] The painting illustrates the point that no one, of whatever status, is immune from the unedifying effects of strong drink.

[1] Steen, who ran a tavern himself, would be well acquainted with such debauchery.