A grotesque accouchement. Oil painting.

Four grotesque dwarfish figures: a hunchbacked man and an old midwife help a woman give birth, producing eggs, while on the left a woman boils a donkey in a cauldron to produce gruel for the mother. In the foreground, babies break out of the eggs: possibly a parody of Leonardo da Vinci's painting of Leda and the swan

[between 1600 and 1699]

1 painting : oil on canvas ; canvas 64 x 76 cm