One woman holds a distaff while the other woman spins. He carries a basket of light into the daylight. A young woman hangs a blue cloak on her elderly husband (a deceived or cuckolded man).

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Netherlandish Proverbs or The Blue Cloak, Detail, (panel; 117 x 163 cm [46 X 64 1/8 in.]), Staatliche Museen, Berlin Signed and dated bottom right: BRVEGEL 1559