A poor family of skinny farmers is eating in a kitchen. The food consists of turnips and empty shells. In the foreground a woman with child in a cradle. A fat farmer is working out the door. To Bruegel's 'lean kitchen', The lean kitchen EHEU QUAM VACUA FOCUS EST MALICENT. IN AEDE, Emblemata Saecularia, 1596 (series title), print maker: Johann Theodor de Bry, Pieter van der Heyden, (attributed to), Pieter Bruegel (I), Frankfurt am Main, 1596, paper, engraving, h 109 mm × w 98 mm

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