Dockside Gallery

[AvastMH]

Oh thank you so much Chris! What a special present! That's lovely. I feel like a Queen! And I look just like my avatar picture - the lovely 'Christina'.

[Hanibal94]

Merry Christmas to us all!

[Randi]

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

Great picture Chris! I'll volunteer to play the bagpipes if that chap has to go
Hope you're having a happy Yule

[Hanibal94]

OWers celebrating the start of a new year.

[Randi]

Good one!!!

[Michael]

[AvastMH]

I say - that pie on the left looks rather good. I'd be happy to do a bit of clog dancing to earn a slice Very good New Years party!

[Hanibal94]

Since the last four entries all involved partying...



Aftermath of all the recent merry celebrations.

[jil]

I assume the couple in the dark clothing are suggesting dry January would be a good idea, but why does the man have a duck on his shoulder?

[Michael]

I think the lady in black is saying, "If you think I'm going to clean up this mess, you've got another think coming!!!" And the man is looking up the rules regarding the eviction of tenants.

[Randi]

I think you got it
Good job all!

[AvastMH]

That's one wild painting Wasn't quite that mad in this house, but we did laugh a lot. Today the decorations came down. Sob!

Perhaps the phrase 'Lord love a duck' indicates that the saintly and dark-apparelled pair are on the right side of a moral life. What ever is flowing out of that barrel is heady stuff - perhaps the monkey got some as well?
I bet there were some sore heads the next day

Great picture and legend, Chris

[Morgan]

I love everyone's "take" on the picture. There is so much going on. I understand that at that time lots of people may live in one house/ room and an animal or two might come walking through. This one has SO much going on though; you have to wonder what the artist had going on in their mind. Was this commissioned for the office of the head of some sort of "institution?" Was it a gift to a mother- in -law? Was it painted as a raffle donation at the local church faire just to see who might bid on it?
I'll bid one chicken.

[Randi]

you have to wonder what the artist had going on in their mind.

Well, the title is "Beware of Luxury"
It was done by Jan Steen in 1663.

[Morgan]

Thanks, Randi, I see some of his work was a representative depiction of Dutch life, some was influenced by the theater. No OW stories are mentioned.

[Hanibal94]

OW'er regrets trying out a voyage with non-standard log formats.

[Michael]

So true, so true!

[Randi]