# Elderly Fisherman with a Girl

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VINCKBOONS, David](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Drawing, 253 x 226 mm

## Commentary

In Dutch literature, fishing conveyed a variety of conflicting sexual associations ranging from impotence to coitus. In the visual arts, the pastime \(which is mostly depicted in book illustrations\) likewise connotes carnality. Such is the case with this drawing, in which an elderly yokel and his much younger companion both reach for worms conspicuously located in a box between his legs; clearly their interests extends well beyond angling.

## Related artworks

- [A Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/a-blind-hurdy-gurdy-player-rdf3cb2f8a8ef5e>)
- [An Officer Preparing His Troops for an Ambush](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/an-officer-preparing-his-troops-for-an-ambush-rc8985291ac6a8e>)
- [Blind Hurdy-Gurdy Player](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/blind-hurdy-gurdy-player-rd42d1247355247>)
- [Distribution of Loaves to the Poor](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/distribution-of-loaves-to-the-poor-r486d865a7eaef5>)
- [Elegant Party in an Ornate Palace Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/elegant-party-in-an-ornate-palace-garden-r292ef1f69cc26c>)
- [Extensive Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/extensive-landscape-rf027135e06682c>)
- [Forest Landscape with Two of Christ&#39;s Miracles \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/forest-landscape-with-two-of-christs-miracles-detail-r75f61e20f12ac9>)
- [Forest Landscape with Two of Christ&#39;s Miracles](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/forest-landscape-with-two-of-christs-miracles-r617b4f0c93620c>)
- [Forest Scene with Robbery](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/forest-scene-with-robbery-r3d0400f9f7fbce>)
- [Kermis](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/kermis-r40442728ac1a7c>)
- [Music-making Company in the Open](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/music-making-company-in-the-open-r328dd99f2584bc>)
- [Peasant Feast](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vinckboons-david-r2e4dbe296a75f7/peasant-feast-rf4502325ea111d>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)