De Koning drinks (three kings), Paulus Pontius, after Jacques Jordaens, 1616 - 1657 print In a departure, an exuberant group of Epiphany celebrates. Men, women and children eat, drink and sing. In the middle, the 'king', a fat man with paper royal crown on the head, lifts his glass. A tablet hangs above his head on the wall: Nil Similius Insano Quam Ebrius (so the old people sang, the boy squeaks). In addition, a parrot in a bird cage. On the right a woman wipes the buttocks of a child, while an old man grabs her chest. From his mother's lap, a child pees on a dog at the table. A man has to vo
De Koning drinks (three kings), Paulus Pontius, after Jacques Jordaens, 1616 - 1657 print In a departure, an exuberant group of Epiphany celebrates. Men, women and children eat, drink and sing. In the middle, the 'king', a fat man with paper royal crown on the head, lifts his glass. A tablet hangs above his head on the wall: Nil Similius Insano Quam Ebrius (so the old people sang, the boy squeaks). In addition, a parrot in a bird cage. On the right a woman wipes the buttocks of a child, while an old man grabs her chest. From his mother's lap, a child pees on a dog at the table. A man has to vomit. In the margin a Bible quote from PR. 31 in Latin. paper engraving Twelfth Night, usually falling on the eve of January 6. drunken brawl (usually peasants fighting in an inn). ornamental birds: parrot. urination. woman-chaser
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