D'un Paisan, et des Souris · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: D'un Paisan, et des Souris
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A peasant having taken more wine than usual, set fire to his house. The mice of his servant, who lived quietly with him, wanted to save themselves from this fire. The peasant who saw them, ran after them as drunk as he was, and having caught them, he threw them into the flames, telling them that, having kept him company in his good fortune, they should do the same in his misfortune.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28943
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_28943_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Fire; Rodent; Men; Town