Museum number
A45
Object
The Wedding Dance by Pieter Brueghel the Younger, 1607-14, oil on panel
Description
Large group of peasant figures; those in foreground, dancing. To the left, drinking and embracing, to right, playing bagpipes. Women wearing folded, white headdresses. Men in coloured caps and jerkins. Trees frame scene on left and right. Background, centre, the bride sits behind a table on which there is a dish of coins. A cloth hangs behind her between trees and a crown is suspended above her head. A crowd is gathered around her. Two huts, one upper left, the other upper right and set slightly in.
On display?
No
Simple name
Painting
Subject
Genre
Dimensions
framed: 6cm (d) x 56.4000cm (h) x 68.6000cm (w)
regular: 49.1cm (h) x 36.6cm (w)
The Wedding Dance Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1565-1638) 1607-14 Oil on panel In a clearing at the edge of a village, a wedding celebration is taking place. The bride is seated at the table in the upper right, dressed in a traditional black wedding gown with a square neck. In the foreground the guests dance, drink and embrace enthusiastically. Over a hundred versions of this composition exist by Brueghel the Younger and his workshop. Conservation work has revealed the quality of this particular painting and the preparatory underdrawing beneath it. Both have contributed to the recent reattribution of the painting to Pieter Brueghel the Younger himself.

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