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Waking the Girls
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Waking the Girls

Cornelis van Kittensteyn · 1629 · engraving; paper

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

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In a room are four young men and four young ladies at two beds. At the bed to the right one of the men pulls up the skirt of a girl. She laughs at him. The boy, with a twig behind his back, slides the curtain of a bed aside. At the other bed the girls, with bare breasts, let themselves be touched by boys. This image belongs to a passage from 'De Hollandsche-Lijs, met de Brabandsche-Bely' about how the boys wake the girls in the morning.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineHet wekken van de meisjes. 1629. Cornelis van Kittensteyn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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