Cleveland Museum of Art
Landscape with Peasants Dancing
David Teniers
- Date
- c. 1645–50
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Culture
- Flanders
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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. This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.
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