D'un Pere, et de ses enfans · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: D'un Pere, et de ses enfans
Subject: Beauty; Father; Children; Home
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A father had a little girl who was extremely ugly, and a little boy who was perfectly beautiful. It happened that one day they found a mirror on their mother's chair, and playing, as children are will do, they looked at themselves in it. The little boy began to boast that he was handsome: the little girl became angry, and could not bear the mockery of her brother, who boasted of her strength, taking everything in the wrong way, and as if he had done her an injustice: This is why, wanting to prick him in his turn, she ran to her father and accused her brother of a crime, because, being a boy, he was looking at the mirror which should only be used by the ladies.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28946
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_28946_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Beauty; Father; Children; Home