The Peasant Wedding
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1568
The story
The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 genre painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Pieter Bruegel the Elder enjoyed painting peasants and different aspects of their lives in so many of his paintings that he has been called Peasant-Bruegel, but he was an intellectual, and many of his paintings have a symbolic meaning as well as a moral aspect.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Date
- 1568
- Collection
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Medium
- oil paint, oak panel
- Size
- 113 × 164 cm
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