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Landscape with Peasants Dancing
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape with Peasants Dancing, c. 1645–50. David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690). Oil on wood; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust, 1996.271
