The painting by the Flemish painter Jacob Jordaens “Satyr in the house of the peasants”. The size of the picture is 194.5 x 203.5 cm, canvas, oil. This canvas is the product of the beginning of the mature period of the artist’s work. Another name for this painting is Jakob Jordaens’ Satyr Visiting a Peasant. “
In the 20-30s of the 17th century, the heyday of the artist’s creative work, Jordaens wrote mythological and allegorical paintings and compositions, which are invariably treated by the painter as genre scenes.
The theme of the picture of a satire conversing with a peasant in his house, written on the plot of Aesop’s fable, is embodied by the artist in a series of canvases that are currently stored in the museums of Budapest, Brussels, Kassel, Moscow and Munich. The elderly satyr invited to a peasant’s meal is surprised by the incomprehensible stupidity of people – the behavior of a peasant who is blowing this pottage, trying to cool it, then hands to warm them.
Both the peasant and the satyr are children of the same nature – they crowded around a small table, their heavy bodies, red cheeks, rough feet, everyday objects in a peasant hut were transferred by the artist in the picture “Satyr in the house of the peasants” with magnificent plastic tactility and inimitable precision.
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