BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger
(b. 1564, Brussel, d. 1638, Antwerpen)

The Winchman

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Oil on panel
Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch

The winchman, here a blind man, was a popular theme in the 16th and 17th century. On the left, attention goes to his begging wife and to the right to a pig that is slaughtered. The winchman gets the attention of children he brings under his spell.