Abstract
AMONG THE ENTERTAINMENTS THEY DEVISE to pass the dull winter days, the aristocratic protagonists of Goethe's Elective Affinities (1809) stage some famous paintings. First on the program are history paintings by Anthony van Dyck and Nicolas Poussin. But for their third tableau vivant, Goethe's characters switch from history to genre, from van Dyck and Poussin to Gerard ter Borch's PaternalAdmonition (fig. 1). Here is how Goethe describes this third tableau:
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