Rijksmuseum
De eierdans
Pieter Aertsen
- Date
- 1552
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Culture
- Antwerp
- Institution
- Rijksmuseum
At right, in this brothel, a young man does an egg dance to the music of a bagpiper. While dancing, he had to roll an egg within a chalk circle – without it breaking – and to cover it with a wooden bowl. This ‘pointless’ amusement, along with the dissolute behaviour of the other figures, served as a moral warning against debauchery.
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Creator
Pieter Aertsenpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1508-1575) · 1508–1575
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