Dance on a Village Street
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Village, Town and Cityscape |
Date | 1600 |
Dimensions | 47.5 x 68.6 cm |
Support | Copper |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | BRUEGHEL 1600 |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #11 Ertz 1979, #60 |
Location | London, England |
Collection | Royal Collection |
Accession numbers | RCIN 405513, Hampton Court Palace |
Tags | Dancing, Swine, Church, House, Mountain, Beggars, Burghers, Crowd, Fools, Peasants, Kermis |
External resources | Royal Collection Trust |
Subject of this painting is actually a village kermis, which can be seen in the background, including a procession to the church. The dancing couples in the foreground are completely not derived from the Pieter Bruegel compositions he had been using up until then but I wonder if they are from German prints.