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A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Peeter Baltens, a painter in the circle of Pieter Bruegel, played an important role in the Antwerp artists’ guild. He was also a rederijker (rhetorician): a poet and an actor. A comic dramatic work is being performed on the makeshift stage in the middle of this kermis scene. The farce is about a man – hidden in a pedlar’s basket – who catches his wife cheating on him with a clergyman.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineA Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’. c. 1570. Peeter Baltens. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
