Peter Baumgartner, (1834–1911), was a genre and history painter who specialized scenes
from literary sources, including German folklore and fairy tales. He also painted genre
parodies of religious paintings. [DES–3/07]
...an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.
Circe, sorceress living on the island of Aeaea; renowned as an ancient chemist and transformer of pig-men.
