Du Soleil, Et Du Vent · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Du Soleil, Et Du Vent
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Brussels; Belgium; Ancient Greece
Description: The wind and the sun were disputing over who was stronger. They saw a traveler and the sun said: I know how we can decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveler to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the stronger. So the sun went behind a cloud, and the wind began to blow as hard as it could upon the traveler, but the harder he blew the tighter the traveler wrapped his cloak round him, till at las the wind had to give up. Then the sun came out and shone upon the traveler, who soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Engravings
Identifier: mta:27340
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_27340_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: sun; winds; people; traveler