A quarrelsome woman embittered the domestic climate

Probably Hieronymus Wierix (Flemish, c. 1553 - 1619 ) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder

 

Inscribed in a circle around the composition, in Flemish:

Een leeckende dack, ende een roockende schouwe,

Ja daer de simme aenden heijrt sit en siet,

Een craijende hinne, een kijfachtige vrouwe,

Is ongheluck in Huijs ja quellinghe en vertriet.

 

English translation:

A leaking roof and a smoking chimney,

yes, where the monkey sits at the hearth and looks around.

A crowing hen, a scolding woman

means bad luck in the house, yes, trouble and grief.

 

Source:

rubens.anu.edu.au/raid2/no_dgb/private/bucket/item_skip=1...

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>> Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. <<

Rip van Winkle

Washington Irving

Done