a clever play on words, the Dutch for 'carrot' is 'wortel'. There are many other typical 'Jean Thomassen' elements in this picture. Numerous fried eggs appear in the sky, and a large safety pin is mounted on the wall of the leaning building on the left. In the grassed area alongside the carrot in the centre three matchsticks can be seen, while the heads of three large tacks can be seen in the water alongside. The houses that are depicted appear to be existing ones that are known in Brussels, a city famous for the statuette of Manneken Pis, shown prominently in this picture. The group of figures shown at the foot of the painting includes the wife of the commissioner of the painting wearing a red dress and his daughter with a cowbell around her neck. Right wing (back) In the centre of this picture two very prominent eyes are looking at the viewer: the eyes of the commissioner of the triptych who also seen playing the bagpipes. The father has the legs and the tail of the devil, and ‘Satan rules!’ is written on his shirt. Nobody seems to be listening to the bagpipers performing in a strange ruin – perhaps once a cathedral. The audience is made up of a bunch of weirdos, including cartoon figures that are well known in Belgium, such as Suske and Wiske, Tintin and detectives Jansen and Janssens. Most of the people stare forwards from behind a plank of wood. At the front on the right is a fat man whose tongue is pinned to the wood with a small nail. The wife of the commissioner of the triptych, shown on the back of the left wing, is shown again here on the left of the crowd where she has the fangs of a vampire which are in fact parts of a lobster. The couple's daughter is also repeated here, this time again behind a wall of wooden planks. In typical Jean Thomassen fashion, a strange flying machine appears overhead, with a fish slung beneath. The sky again contains numerous fried eggs. References Dutch paintings 21st-century paintings