The twisting woman, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Johannes Wierix, after Pieter Bruegel (I), 1596 print A bright woman stands for a man who sits in a timid position on a chair. A 'crowing' chicken and a 'picking' rooster next to the chair. The man is compared to the crowing chicken, which mocks the inverted domestic situation, where the woman is the boss instead of the man. The lyrics of the matching epigram in the album is: e (e) n Leeckende Dack/ End a roaring chouwe/ yes there the Simme Aenden Heert sit and s/ e (e) n Craende hinne/ a kyf -like lady/ is Onheluck in Huys// is in Huys/ Yes Que
The twisting woman, Johann Theodor de Bry, after Johannes Wierix, after Pieter Bruegel (I), 1596 print A bright woman stands for a man who sits in a timid position on a chair. A 'crowing' chicken and a 'picking' rooster next to the chair. The man is compared to the crowing chicken, which mocks the inverted domestic situation, where the woman is the boss instead of the man. The lyrics of the matching epigram in the album is: e (e) n Leeckende Dack/ End a roaring chouwe/ yes there the Simme Aenden Heert sit and s/ e (e) n Craende hinne/ a kyf -like lady/ is Onheluck in Huys// is in Huys/ Yes Quellinghe and sorrow. Rear right, next to the fireplace, a monkey. paper engraving Existence and Modes of Existence (+ emblematical representation of concept). battle for dominance in marriage ('who wears the breeches'). dominating wife. hen-pecked husband
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