Netherlandish Proverbs
The story
Dozens of Dutch proverbs played out simultaneously by figures in a crowded village — from "banging your head against a wall" to "carrying daylight in a basket." Painted in 1559 — Brueghel's encyclopedia of folk wisdom.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Year
- 1551
- Period
- Renaissance
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
