Belgium / Flanders: 'Brothel', oil on panel, Joachim Beuckelaer (1533-1574), 1562

The English 'brothel' comes from the French bordel or 'place of prostitution'.

Joachim Beuckelaer was born in Antwerp and possibly learned to paint in the workshop of his uncle, Pieter Aertsen, who had married his aunt. Aertsen was best known for his market and kitchen scenes, genres which Beuckelaer continued to paint when he established himself as an independent master in 1560.

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