Landscape with Peasants Dancing
David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
c. 1645–50
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
unframed: 49 × 78 cm · framed: 69 × 96.5 × 8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
Accession Number
1996.271
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.