Le Vigneron , et ses Enfans · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Le Vigneron , et ses Enfans
Subject: Wine; Father; Children
Period: 1650-1700;
Geographic: Belgium; Brussels
Description: A winegrower had two big boys that he loved dearly. Feeling that he was at the end of his days, he brought them to his bed, and said to them, my dear children, this is perhaps the last of the days I have to live; in the state I am in, if I have any regret in leaving you, it is that I have done nothing for your recovery; take it from the ungrateful fortune, so deceitful, which did not want to support my wishes, nor to recompense the sweat and work of my long life. However, I leave you honor, which surpasses all the goods of fortune, and a vineyard that you must cultivate well and redouble your care to find a treasure that I leave you there: at these last words death takes him from this world.
Image Creator: Jacobus Harrewijn (Illustrator)
Type: StillImage; Engraving
Identifier: mta:28956
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_28956_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Aesop's Fables
Subject: Wine; Father; Children