Iconology of the Wayfarer Triptych – Detail

“De andere vrouwefiguur houd ik voor één… vanden minliken beghinen, die so heilich sijn van seinen, ende so minlic oechkijns draghen,… ende gaerne gueder minnen plien, ende in rechter caritae [Verwijs, 1871, 98:vs 135-141] (p. 147)”

De andere vrouwefiguur houd ik voor één… vanden minliken beghinen, die so heilich sijn van seinen, ende so minlic oechkijns draghen,… ende gaerne gueder minnen plien, ende in rechter caritae [Verwijs, 1871, 98:vs 135-141] (p. 68)

D’autre part, l’ivresse porte à la colère, ce qui permet d’interpréter le geste du personnage qui frappe le jeune garçon avec une cruche. (p.29)

Further left, a man dressed in red and another woman with her head covered are engaged in a light-hearted fight over two jugs, the one held by the woman seemingly empty, the one in the water full. (p. 191)

Ira’ is also shown, in the detail of the woman threatening the man on the left. (p. 93)

A flask is placed beside the inscription in the foreground of the scene, and the gallant who sprawls on the skirts of the seated lady offers her a drinking cup. (p. 301:note 34)

… a woman (identified by Cuttler as a beguine, or lay sister) assails a cowering man in the from of the boat with a drinking crock [Cuttler, 1969, 272] (pp. 250-252)

Another characteristic of the phlegmatic character, irritation, is expressed in Bosch’s painting by the woman in the boat aiming with her jug at the man lying below her [Hildegarde, 1903, 19]. (p.63)