Saturday, January 04, 2014

Pieter Breguhel's The Flatterers

Via Mona Goldwater, Social Mores Ed.

The inscription around the frame reads “Because so much money passes through my purse, therefore I am always surrounded by flatterers 1592," (which may be a reference to a Flemish proverb).
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