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Peasant Wedding
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Peasant Wedding

Cornelis van Dalen (I) · 1622 - 1665 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Peasant wedding with guests seated at a table with a feast and dancing peasants. The scene contains various obscene details: a dog eats a man's vomit and another dog licks the dirty buttocks of a child. In the margin, a mocking verse in three couplets by C. Tiel.

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printbagpipe, musettefarmers
Credit lineBoerenbruiloft. 1622 - 1665. Cornelis van Dalen (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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