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
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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