# A Quack and His Assistant [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MOLENAER, Jan Miense]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 105 x 87 cm ## Commentary Quacks on market squares with a large crowd watching were popular scenes in 17th Century painting, and are often interpreted as mocking scenes of foolish peasants who are tricked by richly dressed quacks. In this picture this is not only underlined by the peasant, who, concentrated on the scene before him, is being robbed from his duck, but also by the boy with the hoop smiling at the beholder to draw attention to the scene behind him. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Vanity \(detail\)]() - [Amorous Couple in an Inn]() - [Battle between Carnival and Lent]() - [Drinking Peasants]() - [Interior with a Violinist]() - [Interior with Children Drinking and Mischief-Making]() - [Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company]() - [Peasant Wedding]() - [Peasants in an Inn Playing "La Main Chaude"]() - [Peasants in an Inn Playing "La Main Chaude"]() - [Peasants in the Tavern]() - [Self-Portrait with Family Members]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()