The Hay runs after the horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, After Anonymous, After Pieter Bruegel (I), 1596 print The saying "The hay runs behind the horse" is literally portrayed here, after the example of Pieter Brueghel. A basket with hay in which a male is sitting behind a horse. In the background, the meaning of the saying is portrayed: here the woman follows the man, instead of vice versa. It is the man who should first take the initiative in love, not the woman. Emblem no. 20 in Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 and No. 41 in the second edition of 1611. paper engraving Existence and Modes of Existen
The Hay runs after the horse, Johann Theodor de Bry, After Anonymous, After Pieter Bruegel (I), 1596 print The saying "The hay runs behind the horse" is literally portrayed here, after the example of Pieter Brueghel. A basket with hay in which a male is sitting behind a horse. In the background, the meaning of the saying is portrayed: here the woman follows the man, instead of vice versa. It is the man who should first take the initiative in love, not the woman. Emblem no. 20 in Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 and No. 41 in the second edition of 1611. paper engraving Existence and Modes of Existence (+ emblematical representation of concept). proverbs, sayings, horseshoe. one-sided courting
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