Hanging the wealthy in the chimney
Anonymous in the style of Pieter Bruegel [1600-1620]
Hanging the wealthy in the chimney
Rotterdam, Boijmans van Beuningen
collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/90660/Hanging-the-Wealthy...
The title is not convincing in respect to the hung person;
he is rather slim and therefore most certainly not a rich or wealthy man. Yet it is evidently a strange execution scene, we see on the right of the chimney the sword of the hangman, in the chimney hangs already another delinquent.
But I never saw an execution within a chimney !
Perhaps another proverb fits better:
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Hanging the wealthy in the chimney
Anonymous in the style of Pieter Bruegel [1600-1620]
Hanging the wealthy in the chimney
Rotterdam, Boijmans van Beuningen
collectie.boijmans.nl/en/object/90660/Hanging-the-Wealthy...
The title is not convincing in respect to the hung person;
he is rather slim and therefore most certainly not a rich or wealthy man. Yet it is evidently a strange execution scene, we see on the right of the chimney the sword of the hangman, in the chimney hangs already another delinquent.
But I never saw an execution within a chimney !
Perhaps another proverb fits better:
The big thieves hang the little ones.