Pieter Brueghel the Younger copied his father's popular painting the original of which now hangs in the Staatliche Museen in Berlin.

More than a hundred proverbs and idiomatic expressions have been identified, describing "topsy-turvy" ways of behaviour. This explains the other name occasionally given the painting, that of The Topsy-Turvy World. Some of the artist's proverbs are still in use today. Other painted sayings come closer to metaphor.

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	Proverbs - Oil on canvas, 123 x 164 cm Rockox House, Antwerp	1202*893 True Color 183 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	723*1119 True Color 150 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	720*1123 True Color 137 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	720*1130 True Color 145 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	806*1041 True Color 168 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	809*1032 True Color 183 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	909*913 True Color 161 Kb
	Proverbs (detail) - Oil on canvas Rockox House, Antwerp	901*896 True Color 162 Kb