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Two couples in an inn
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Two couples in an inn

Cornelis Massijs · 1539 - 1544 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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In an inn two men sit with two women flirting at a round table. Meanwhile two other women rob the men. To the right a watching and laughing jester with a marotte who speaks the text at the bottom in the margin. On the wall hangs a print with the representation of a man, who hatches eggs, a crowing hen and a rooster with chicks. Under the print the proverb: It is a great vexation for the house // Where the hen crows and // [the rooster does not]. Warning for the power of the woman, who can cast the man into ruin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineTwee paren in een herberg. 1539 - 1544. Cornelis Massijs. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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