...तरिहि नव्या स्त्रीची मेली ॥ हौस कशि असे हो...Welding David Teniers the Younger & G B Deval Together

आज, जून १४ २०१७, गोविंद बल्लाळ देवल यांची १०१वी पुण्यतिथी आहे

पद्य ( राग --- पिलृ : त्रिताल ):

काय पुरुष चळले बाई ॥ ताळ मुळीं उरला नाहीं ॥ धर्म---नीति ---शास्त्रें पायी ॥ तुडविती कसे हो ॥धृ०॥

साठ अधिक वर्षें भरलीं ॥ नातवास पोरें झालीं ॥ तरिहि नव्या स्त्रीची मेली ॥ हौस कशि असे हो ॥१॥ घोडथेरडयांना ऐशा ॥ देति बाप पोरी कैशा ॥ कांहिं दुजी त्यांच्या नाशा ॥ युक्ति कां नसे हो ॥२॥

 शास्त्रकुशल मोठे मोठे ॥ धर्म---गुरुहि गेले कोठें ?॥ काय कर्म असलें खोटें ॥ त्यांस नव दिसे हो

('संगीत शारदा', १८९९)

.....and with apologies to the late Mr. Teniers

‘An Old Peasant Caresses a Kitchen Maid in a Stable', c 1650

 The Artist:  David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690)

Mr. Jonathan Jones of The Guardian writes about the picture:

"Gross! An elderly man pays creepy attentions to a young woman in this glimpse of rural life more than 350 years ago. Teniers used to be the most famous by far of all painters of “genre scenes”, as paintings of the everyday were called. Now he is forgotten compared with Vermeer, whose tender realism moves us more. Teniers reflects a contemptuously hierarchical age when the lower orders were to be laughed at, but his paintings do show what peasant villages looked like before the industrial revolution."