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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder,

Country wedding. Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1567, oil on wood, 114 × 163 cm
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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Bauernhochzeit. Pieter Bruegel d. Ä.

1567, Öl auf Holz, 114 × 163 cm
Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum

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. Πήτερ Μπρίγκελ ο πρεσβύτερος

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The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is currently housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

See also

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Peasant Wedding , Detail

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Peasant Wedding , Detail

Scene

The bride is under the canopy. According to contemporary custom, the groom is not seated at the table but may be the man pouring out beer.[1] Two pipers play the pijpzak, and an unbreeched boy in the foreground licks a plate.

The feast is in a barn in the spring time; two ears of corn with a rake remind us of the work that harvesting involves, and the hard life peasants have. The plates are carried on a door off its hinges. The main food was bread, porridge and soup.
In popular culture
External video Bauernhochzeit (Kind mit Schüssel).jpg
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Peasant Wedding, c. 1566-69, Smarthistory

The painting was parodied in Asterix in Belgium.[2][3] Another parody was the postcard for the Belgian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979.
Notes

Grove Art Online
Bell, Anthea (1996). "Translating Astérix". Translation: Here and There, Now and Then. Intellect Books. p. 129.
Screech, Matthew (2005). Masters of the ninth art: bandes dessinées and Franco-Belgian identity. Liverpool University Press. p. 85.

Further reading

Orenstein, Nadine M., ed. (2001). Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870999901. (see index)

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