The Peasant Wedding, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder·The Peasant Wedding·c. 1567·Oil on oak panel·Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna↓

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Flemish, c. 1525 – 1569

The Peasant Wedding, c. 1567

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A wedding feast crowds a barn at harvest time. Two men carry bowls of porridge on a door taken off its hinges, pipers play, and the bride sits before a green hanging under a paper crown, eyes half-closed. Which man is the groom is still argued over. Bruegel observed such customs closely enough that the scene is used as evidence of 16th-century peasant life.

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In the foreground a small child licks a plate clean. The servant in red carrying the door appears to have three feet; the third belongs to a man behind him.

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