The Cook and His Wife

probably 1497 Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1949.95

Dürer’s curious engraving relates a comical story about the exposure of womanly deception. This housewife, identified by her clothing and the key and purse at her hip, had eaten an eel that her husband was saving. Although she denied it, her pet magpie, a bird associated with...

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