At 16:43 08/05/2007, you wrote:
As someone already pointed out, it is a William Buytewech
painting. The "orginal" (the one where if you actually look
closely, you can see the "tip of the anatomy.") is at
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums, Berlin. The one on Bildindex attributes it
to the same artist and to the same museum.
The only other painting I remember showing this sort of thing is a
Breughel - (a younger as I recall) of a woman squatting in the
woods. I am sure it is more common than we see. I guess on of the
big French palaces....(Versailles?) didn't originally have any
"bathrooms" and I recall hearing often of folks relieving themselves
in stairways and fireplaces.
There is also a gentleman relieving himself by sitting on a window
sill, with his backside outside, and p***ing into the river below.
Can't unfortunately remember the name or the actual painting, (the
artist is, I think, Heironymus Bosch,) but it is in the bottom left
hand side. The gentleman is not one of his grotesques, but apparently
an "ordinary" person. Daft what you DO remember, isn't it?!
Suzi
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