The Peasant Wedding Dance
Object type | |
Genre | Urban, Common and Peasant Life |
Dimensions | 37.5 x 42.3 cm |
Signature | P.BRVEGEL.INVENT |
Signature location | Lower left corner on scroll |
Further inscription | Signed in lower left corner on scroll: P.BRVEGEL.INVENT and in the lower right corner: .PAME. [monogram] at bottom ventre the address: Aux quatre Vents In lower margin eight lines of Dutch text in two columns: Locht op speelman ende latet wel dueren, Soo langh als de lul ghaet en den rommel vermach: Doet lijse weldapper haer billen rueren, Want ten is vrij met haer gheen bruijloft alden dach. Nu hebbelijck hannen danst soomen plach, Ick luijster na de pijp en ghij mist den voet: Maer ons bruijt neemt nu van dansen verdrach, Trouwens, tis oock best, want sij ghaet vol en soete. |
Print type | Engraving |
Printmaker | Pieter van der Heyden |
Publisher | Hieronymus Cock |
States | 3 |
Tags | Dancing, Peasants, Musical instruments |
External resources | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |