Two panels with obscene expressions

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Name
Two panels with obscene expressions
Measurements
Height: 17 cm, Width: 15 cm
Reference
BBWA10050
Colors
Red, Green, Gold, Beige, Brown, White, Black
Categories
Fine Art Paintings
Materials
Oil on panel
Periods
C. 1600
Origin and period
Netherlands
Subject
Interior
Description
"T hangt Inden sack, wilt niet verlanghen jare / Och quaemt uit dat ick aent ontfanghen ware"
 
"Whaij vriendt in u visschen, en heb ick gheen vreucht siet / whant u hengelroeij is slap, en u aes en deught niet" 
 

On these two panels obscene expressions are depicted. These expressions were common in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and were used by a variety of painters and writers.

The fisherman is mocked with his impotence. The woman in the interior is in desperation because her husband is working evermore.

 

 

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