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Ref: sk-a-2554
Peeter Baltens, a painter in the circle of Pieter Bruegel, played an important role in the Antwerp artists’ guild. He was also a rederijker (rhetorician): a poet and an actor. A comic dramatic work is being performed on the makeshift stage in the middle of this kermis scene. The farce is about a man – hidden in a pedlar’s basket – who catches his wife cheating on him with a clergyman.
Title: A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’
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Date: c. 1570
Medium: oil paint (paint); panel
Type: painting
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