A Flemish Kermis with a Performance of the Farce Een cluyte van Plaeyerwater’. Peeter Baltens, a painter in the circle of Pieter Bruegel, played an important role in the Antwerp artists’ guild. He was also a rederijker (rhetorician): a poet and an actor. A comic dramatic work is being performed on the makeshift stage in the middle of this kermis scene. The farce is about a man - hidden in a pedlar’s basket - who catches his wife cheating on him with a clergyman.