Bruegel The Netherlandish Proverbs

A man, armed to the teeth, bells the cat. With a knife in his teeth, he is an iron-eater.

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