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Landscape with Peasants Dancing

c. 1645–50

David Teniers

(Flemish, 1610–1690)
Culture
Flanders
Medium
oil on wood
Measurements
Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust 1996.271
Public Domain
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Location
213 Dutch Painting
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This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.

Description

Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.
A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts people with light skin tones in a rural landscape. At our left, figures gather outside a thatched cottage; two dance while others sit nearby. In the center, a man stands beside wooden barrels. To our right, a stream flows past a hill topped with a tower and gabled house. Soft brushstrokes capture hazy clouds filling the sky, casting light over the lively outdoor scene.

Landscape with Peasants Dancing

c. 1645–50

David Teniers

(Flemish, 1610–1690)
Flanders

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