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Pieter Breughel the Elder: "The Netherlandish Proverbs" Canvas Print(163x117cm)

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The Dutch Proverbs or The Flemish Proverbs is an oil painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Painted in 1559, it contains over 100 Dutch aphorisms and sayings.

On the surface, it depicts everyday life and activities in a village on the seashore. On the left side, an upside-down globe hangs on the wall of a house, symbolizing the upside-down, godless world in which people, like fools, go about their worldly business. Below the center of the picture, a woman in a red dress wearing a blue cloak can be seen, symbolizing that she is cheating on her husband. In the center of the picture, the devil sits under a blue canopy, and there can be little doubt that he is the regent of the picture world.

In his view of the world, Bruegel's painting ties in with the notion of his time that the world is sinful, evil, and foolish. Deceit and self-deception, wickedness and weakness go hand in hand.

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Wikipedia: Selection of image passages with associated proverbs.

By the feathers one knows the bird
Gnaw on a leg
An old roof needs a lot of repair
Fishing for the net
If one blind man leads the other, they both fall into the ditch.
If the calf has been drowned, the well is filled
Go to confession with the devil
Owe someone a debt
That's where the pointer hangs out
That's where the scissors are
That's where the knife is
There are wooden shoes
There's more than one herring in there
That's where the roofs are covered with flans
That hangs like a shithouse above the canal
Watching the bears dance
Holding out the broom
Throwing the axe at the handle
Dragging the goat
Hang the cape on the thuyn
Tie the devil to the pillow
One gathers what the other spins
One shears sheep, the other pigs
One beggar does not like to see another at the door
Send one arrow after the other
Shitting on the gallows
The madmen get the best cards
The big fish eat the little fish
The rooster and the fox have each other to look after
The cock-a-doodle-do
Find the dog in the pot
The cat rings the bell
The jug is soaked until it bursts.
Roast the harinck for the sake of rye or cheese
The world upside down
Checking the stork
The journey is not over when you recognize church and tower
The smoke can't hurt the hanger
The spindle falls into the fire
The die is cast
The sow runs away with the tap
Can't see the sun shining in the water
Who carries the water in one hand and in the other tank, don't believe him, there and here
Who spilled his porridge can't pick it up again
Fall through the basket
Pull through the eye of the scissors
The eel should not be cut from another man's side, from a wide tree
Have an eel by the tail
Have a lid on his head
Leave an egg in the nest
Get a hole in the roof
A rake without a handle
Burning a candle for the devil
A morse wall is quickly broken down
Keeping an eye on things
An ear blower
A pillar biter
Being a skimmer
Putting a stick in the wheel
Taking each other by the nose
To make fun of something
To make Gode enen vlassenen baert
It does not matter to him whose house that burns, if he warms him by the coals
To seek the axe
It is healthy to piss in the fire.
It's just how the cards fall.
It is played under the hat
The pig is stabbed through the belly.
Hi cust the rinscken of the doors
He carries the day with baskets out
He has the world at his feet
He can see through an oak board if there's a hole in it
He makes the world go round on his thumb
He walks like he's got fire up his arse
He catches fish with his hands
He plays the cake
Turning a blind eye
Putting himself in harm's way
Laughing like a peasant with a toothache
Love is where the purse strings are
One has slats on the roof there
You can't gape at an oven
You have to shear the sheep according to the wool they have.
You have to bend over to get through the world.
You can't swing a spear with him.
Walk with your head against the wall.
You must not throw roses before swine.
"Seize the chicken's egg and let the goose's egg go.
No one so fine as spun something or it came to the light of the sun.
No one tries to put the others in the oven or they have been in it all by themselves.
No one knows how to get from one bread to another
Distress makes old men trot
Being married under the broom
Unwert dieghene talre stont, die twee tonghen draghen in den mont
Shitting on the world
Sitting on hot coals
Horse droppings are not figs
Plumes blowing in the wind
Throwing out haddock to catch cod
Si trecken omt lanxte
As soon as the dam breaks, the fish runs in the corn.
Pissing against the moon
Against the current is evil rowing (swimming)
To be armed to the teeth
Hanging between heaven and earth
To sit between two chairs in the ashes
Two dogs with one leg, si draghen selden wel overeene
Kill two birds with one stone
Two fools under one roof
Growing out of the window
Shitting out of the same hole
Jumping from the ox to the donkey
Lots of screaming and not much wool
For win ist goet seylen
Where there is carrion crows will fly
What good is a nice plate if it's empty?
Who knows why geese go on foot?
Wild bears, which are by the other gheeren
She hangs her man the blue cape
Wiping his hole at the gate
Throwing his money in the water
Hang his hood to the wind
Carrying his burden
Shining his light on something
Shooting his arrows
As gentle as a lamb
Make sure no black dog gets in between

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Unframed. Circumferential white border (approx. 4-5cm) for framing.
Shipping: rolled.
The canvas is sensitive to bending. After framing, creases and fraying of the canvas at the edge are harmless.
Size specifications refer to the image area without border.