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- Reference number
- P01787
- Author
- Teniers, David (Flemish)
- Title
- Village Feast
- Chronology
- 1640-1650
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 77 cm x 99 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- Yes
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
Some peasants dance to the sound of
a bagpiper in front of a house in
what is one of many examples of
genre scenes painted by this
artist.
Teniers based this work on the
esthetics and certain compositional
schemes by Jan Brueghel (the Elder”
(1568-1625), repeating the same
idyllic vision of peasant life,
which was also omnipresent in
Flemish literature at that
time.
Some of the characters are almost
identical to those in other works
by this artist. They correspond to
certain topos, such as the piper on
a barrel, the pair of dancers, the
pair of young men, the naughty
children, or the drunken figure
leaning on the fence.
In 1759, Queen Isabel Farnesio
acquired this work from the
collection of the Marquis of la
Ensenada.
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