A village street with a blind hurdy-gurdy player surrounded by children

Georges Marlier records that both Pieter Brueghel the Younger and David Vinckboons painted numerous versions of the present subject, which he describes as Le Jouer de Vielle et les Enfants and another related composition which he calls Pinksteren Bruiloft or La Noce Enfantine (see G. Marlier, Pierre Brueghel Le Jeune, Brussels, 1969, pp. 365-71). For an example, see the version at the Rijksmuseum, which Goosens dates to 1610 (see K. Goosens, David Vinckboons, Soest, 1977, p. 12).