A group of children tries to make a cat dance; a performance known as 'De dansles'. The children are sitting around a table, a girl is playing the flu
A group of children tries to make a cat dance; a performance known as 'De dansles'. The children are sitting around a table, a girl is playing the flute, the dog is barking. Upstairs a man looks on through a window, on the right, a lute hangs on the wall. These children are up to mischief: they are teaching a cat to dance to the music of a shawm, a 17th-century wind instrument. While they are clearly enjoying themselves, the cat screeches in protest, joined by a barking dog. The old man at the window angrily rebukes the children: should they not be learning something rather than giving dancing lessons to a cat?
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Photo credit: © Viktor Birkus / Alamy / Afripics
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