The Peasant Wedding | |
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Artist | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
Year | 1567 |
Medium | Oil on panel |
Dimensions | 114 cm × 164 cm (45 in × 65 in) |
Location | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum |
The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 genre painting[1] 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.[2][3][4]