As the old ones sing, so pipe the young ones

The copy is in the same direction as the engraving by Schelte Bolswert (Holl.293) after the prototype, signed and dated 1638, on canvas, 120 x 192 cm, in the Muses Royaux des Beaux Arts, Antwerp (see R-A d'Hulst, Jacob Jordaens, 1982, p.167, fig.137).
The subject was a favourite theme of Jordaens; the prototype in Antwerp is his earliest interpretation of it.