Farmer Fight

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Jan Miense Molenaer (after)
,
Cornelis I van Caukercken (etchers)

Date

ca. 1640 - 1680

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
A big brawl is going on in a pub. Peasants beat each other's heads with clubs, chairs and brooms. In the foreground, a man is stabbed with a knife. Women run outside, a maid flees via a ladder to the attic.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Jan Miense Molenaer VIAF RKD Wikidata, Cornelis I van Caukercken
Types etching , reproductive prints AAT
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 365 x 458 mm
Object number 2015-MA
Description
Subjects figures (representations) , interior views
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, adult man Iconclass, farmers Iconclass, fighting Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, adult woman Iconclass, flight, running away; pursuing Iconclass, ladder Iconclass, inn, coffee-house, public house, etc. Iconclass, chairs (furniture forms) Iconclass, table Iconclass, dog Iconclass, hacking and thrusting weapons: sword Iconclass, (household) utensils and implements (BROOM) Iconclass, child Iconclass, boy (child between toddler and youth) Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2015-MA
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/9124/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2015-MA
Vlaamse Kunstcollectie - EN

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