Village Wedding Procession (Madrid)
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Urban, Common and Peasant Life |
Date | ca. 1612 |
Dimensions | 84 x 126 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #572 Ertz 1979, #363 |
Location | Madrid, Spain |
Collection | Museo del Prado |
Accession numbers | inv. #1441 |
Series | Madrid Peasant Weddings |
Tags | Wedding, Birds, Chickens, Dog, Church, Village, Burghers, Children, Peasants, Musical instruments |
External resources | Museo del Prado |
Although Ertz still dates this and its pendant (Prado #1442) to 1621-23, they surely correspond to the pictures that hung in Brussels in 1613, and had been dated to that period on stylistic grounds by Georges Marlier long ago. These two pictures are quite different in their treatment of space, color, and landscape from the two works that are indeed from the 1620s, Prado #s 1438 & 1439; the later two paintings are also much larger.