The painting shows the inside of a country farm with two separate buildings. In the foreground is a slaughterman pinning an animal down with his right knee whilst slitting its throat (in the late Middle Ages it was usual to depict the animal rather expressively with its mouth open) and moving its leg to make its blood flow quickly into the skillet held by a female peasant. The bundles of firewood next to the woman will be used to burn its hide. Inside a shed on the left, a woman breaks branches of firewood in her hands to feed the fire of the oven where the bread will be baked – two loaves are shown on a wooden bench. A peasant brings four unbaked loaves on a tray from the shed opposite where a woman kneads the dough in a large kneading trough. The property is surrounded by a fence with a magpie perched on it waiting to take advantage of the leftovers when the peasants finish their work on the animal. Two gentlemen with their huntsmen can be seen in the background setting off to hunt a stag being hounded in the top part by a pack of dogs.
The painting shows the inside of a country farm with two separate buildings. In the foreground is a slaughterman pinning an animal down with his right knee whilst slitting its throat (in the late Middle Ages it was usual to depict the animal rather expressively with its mouth open) and moving its leg to make its blood flow quickly into the skillet held by a female peasant. The bundles of firewood next to the woman will be used to burn its hide. Inside a shed on the left, a woman breaks branches of firewood in her hands to feed the fire of the oven where the bread will be baked – two loaves are shown on a wooden bench. A peasant brings four unbaked loaves on a tray from the shed opposite where a woman kneads the dough in a large kneading trough. The property is surrounded by a fence with a magpie perched on it waiting to take advantage of the leftovers when the peasants finish their work on the animal. Two gentlemen with their huntsmen can be seen in the background setting off to hunt a stag being hounded in the top part by a pack of dogs.
Carlos Miranda García-Tejedor Doctor in History
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