Village Festival

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Village Festival

David TeniersLinkedCulture matchlcp-110718ec8366

Date
c. 1646–50
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
Flanders
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
148965

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Depictions of peasant festivals, such as weddings, harvests, and village holidays became an extremely popular subject for Flemish artists during the 1600s. In his paintings of these festive occasions David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690), portrayed peasants dancing and playing music, focusing on the cheerful elements of peasant life. His images often feature close-knit family groups taking part in the celebration. Contrary to his predecessors, who often depicted broken and disorderly still life objects in their paintings, Teniers emphasized household objects in brass, ceramic, and glass in a perfect state to demonstrate the growing prosperity of the peasants. Surviving drawings show that Teniers sketched many peasants from life, and similar figures appear throughout his peasant paintings from about 1640 to 1660.

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Credit line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
Provenance
-1790 M. Marin | , sold, 03/22/1790, no.16 | 1790-1816 M. Catelan | -1832 M. le Chevalier Erard, Paris, sold, 21 rue de Clery, Paris, 08/07 - 14/1832, no. 150, to Count Horace Francois Bastien Sebastiani | 1832- Count Horace Francois Bastien Sebastiani (1772-1851) | -1851 Marchal of France, sold, rue du Fraubourg Saint Honore, 11/24 - 28/1851, no. 157, to Thomas Jefferson Bryan | 1851-1867 Thomas Jefferson Bryan, by gift to the New-York Historical Society | 1867-1971 New York Historical Society, sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 12/02/1971, no. 89, to Noah L. Butkin | 1971-1977 Noah L. Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.

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