The Egg Dance
| The Egg Dance | |
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| Artist | Pieter Aertsen  |
| Year | 1552 |
| Medium | oil paint, panel |
| Dimensions | 84 cm (33 in) × 172 cm (68 in) |
| Location | Rijksmuseum, hall 0.6, Netherlands |
| Collection | Rijksmuseum |
| Accession No. | SK-A-3 |
| Identifiers | RKDimages ID: 6732 Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20016677 |
The Egg Dance is a 1552 oil on panel genre painting by the Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which bought it in 1839 from the collection of Colonel von Schepeler in Aachen. It depicts preparations for the Easter or carnival custom of an egg dance.
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