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A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’
Also titled Boerenkermis met een opvoering van de klucht ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’
Peeter Baltens (Antwerp, 1527–1584)
c. 1570
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 112 cm x width 157 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
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.
