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

Peeter Baltens (1527/28–1584), oil on panel, c. 1570

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.

Artwork typepainting
Object numberSK-A-2554
Dimensionsheight 112 cm x width 157 cm
Physical characteristicsolieverf op paneel

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

Identification

Title(s)
- A Performance of the Farce 'Een Cluyte van Plaeyerwater' (A Clod from Plaeyerwater) at a Flemish Kermis
- A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce ‘Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’
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Object number
SK-A-2554
Description
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.
Catalogue reference
R. Genaille, Naar den ouden Brueghel, in: Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpern 1980, p. 74, noot 32

Creation

Creation
painter: Peeter Baltens
Dating
c. 1570
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Material and technique

Physcial description
olieverf op paneel
Material
Dimensions
height 112 cm x width 157 cm

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Acquisition and rights

Credit line
Gift of the heirs of C. Hoogendijk, The Hague
Acquisition
gift 1912-05
Ownership
Copyright
Public domain

Documentation

- R. Genaille, Naar den ouden Brueghel, in: Jaarboek Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpern 1980, p. 74, noot 32
- H. Pleij, Volksfeest en toneel in de middeleeuwen, in: De Revisor, nr. 1 (1977-02)
- H. Pleij, Volksfeest en toneel in de middeleeuwen, in: De Revisor nr. 6 (1996-12)
- M. Kolk, Pikturale feesten, in: O.K. Kunstschrift 22, nr. 2 (1978), p. 66, afb. 27
- W.H.M. Hummelen, Toneel op de kermis, van Bruegel tot Bredero. in: Oud Holland 103, nr. 1 (1989), p. 4-7, afb. 2
- Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 1912, p. 15
- G. Marlier, Peeter Balten, copiste ou créateur?, in: Bulletin Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique XIV (1965), p. 140
- W.S. Gibson, Artists and Rederijkers in the Age of Bruegel, in: The Art Bulletin LXIII (1981-09-03), p. 428, afb. 5

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