Landscape with Peasants Dancing
David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
c. 1645–50
Medium
oil on wood
Dimensions
unframed: 49 × 78 cm · framed: 69 × 96.5 × 8 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
Accession Number
1996.271
Tags
male
About this artwork
Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.