# A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’

- By: Peeter Baltens (Antwerp, 1527–1584)
- Date: c. 1570
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 112 cm x width 157 cm
- Credit line: Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2554--cfce0c87ca2d3b83661ad1d13f9d2aac)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1423b687933145893f29af092c3be066.jpg
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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.