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Shrove Tuesday
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
In an interior of a kitchen, a cheerful company is gathered with an old woman baking waffles by the hearth (Shrove Tuesday). On the left, a man with a lute; on the right, a drinking monk with a nun. In the front right, a jester is being shaved; in the foreground, a dancing dog wearing a jester's hood. Above the hearth, a print with an owl as a pilgrim. With a two-column inscription, six lines in French on the left and five lines in Dutch on the right.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVastenavond. 1567. Pieter van der Heyden. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
