The Naughty Stuff They Found When They Cleaned A Couple Of Old Dutch Master Paintings

“Recently, a painting in the British Royal Collection was cleaned, revealing the younger van Ostade’s own lowbrow humor in the figure of a man urinating in front of a dog. Now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena is sharing a similar discovery: Its newly restored 1641 Isack van Ostade painting of peasants butchering a pig shows a man defecating in the corner.”