Du Frene, et d'un Roseau · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Du Frene, et d'un Roseau
Subject: Reed; Wind; Tree
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A Frene boasted of his firmness, and insulted a Reed on his weakness, reproaching him for yielding to the least wind. No sooner had he spoken, than there came a whirlwind, and a storm so violent that they destroyed him, and threw him to the ground. The reed on his side bent deftly; the storm passed, he turned back to the Frene, and told him that he could see at his own expense that it was more appropriate to yield to a powerful enemy than to resist him in a temporary manner.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28949
Language: fre
Source Name: Esope en Belle Humeur
Parent Collection: F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700); F - Esope en belle humeur. Engravings by Anonymous. (1700)
Image: mta_28949_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Reed; Wind; Tree