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A Young Woman Deceives her Old Husband
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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An old man in a nightgown offers his beautiful young wife a flower. He does not notice that a young man puts two horns on his head. According to the four-line poem in the margin (in French and in German) the young woman will cautiously flee before her husband ties her to his horns as punishment for her infidelity.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineEen jonge vrouw bedriegt haar oude echtgenoot. 1574 - 1637. Crispijn van de Passe (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
