Martin De Vos' Painting Called "Moses Showing the Tablets of the Law to the Israelites, with Portraits of Members of the Panhuys Family, their Relatives and Friends"

 

Although he's politely translated the Ten Commandments

Into Dutch only one person -- a woman

Holding a tureen the same green shade

As her blouse -- is glancing at them. Otherwise, 

The huge crowd is dreaming,

Chatting, joking, balancing vases

On their heads or looking out at us

Thinking "Well, you're not reading the words either,

Are you?" Also, a quiet satyr has slipped in

Wearing a laurel wreath in his hair.