This painting traditionally known as “the world turned upside down”, Steen combined humorous stories with moralising statements. One example is this house of debauches: the inscription on the wall warns and regrets it. The scene inside the domestic interior has hardly any rationalised order to the figures, with the woman in the centre of the picture in a rather inebriated mood, holding various containers, presumably of alcohol, in her hands, and a dog eating on the table or a child smoking a pipe.
Collection: Images
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe.
Chronology: XVII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Link: https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/1833/?offset=130&lv=list
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (105 x 145,5 cm)
Source: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Viena)
Language: German
Date: 1663
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: 791
Copyright: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Viena)
Abstract: Painting by Jan Steen that simulates a different reality with a change of roles of the characters in everyday actions
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