he worked on the theme at least five times ... was the fable particularly important to him, or to his clients, in some way that we no longer understand ?
erasmus published this fable and many others in his adagia of 1500 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagia
https://archive.org/stream/proverbschieflyt00blaniala#page/n199/mode/2up/search/satyr
... the adagia must have been a go-to-source for lots of artists in the subsequent century ... think of brueghel's netherlandish proverbs ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs
or maybe hans hoffman ...
https://twitter.com/veracausa9/status/951571340993224706
... all long before jordaens' versions from about 1620
... wikipedia carries an excellent article on the fable, all of its tellings and interpretations ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Satyr_and_the_Traveller
... and here's an excellent compilation of images of jordaens' pictures
http://markfrm.blogspot.com/2014/12/jacob-jordaens-1593-1678-flemish.html
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