Wedding Dance

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Wedding Dance

c. 1575-1600

Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish (active Antwerp and Brussels), c. 1525–1569)

This painting was most likely executed by a follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The early seventeenth-century biographer Carel van Mander recorded that the elder Bruegel would visit village fairs in disguise to observe peasant behavior and record them in works like this, and specifically describes watercolor paintings of peasant weddings.

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Object Details

Title:

Wedding Dance

Date:

c. 1575-1600

Artist:

Follower of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish (active Antwerp and Brussels), c. 1525–1569)

Medium:

Oil on panel

Dimensions:

31 5/8 x 41 7/8 inches (80.3 x 106.4 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 420

Geography:

Made in Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century), Europe

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