The Peasant Wedding
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| Artist | Pieter Brueghel the Elder |
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| Year | 1567 |
| Type | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 124 cm × 164 cm (49 in × 65 in) |
| Location | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum |
The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Brueghel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is currently housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
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[edit] Scene
The bride is under the canopy. According to contemporary custom, the groom is not seated at the table but may be the man pouring out beer.[1] Two pipers play the pijpzak, and an unbreeched boy in the foreground licks a plate.
The feast is in a barn in the spring time ; two ears of corn with a rake reminding us of the work that harvesting involves, and the hard life peasants have. The plates are carried on a door off its hinges. The main food was bread, porridge and soup.
[edit] In popular culture
The painting was parodied in Asterix in Belgium.[2][3]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Grove Art Online
- ^ Bell, Anthea (1996). "Translating Astérix". Translation: Here and There, Now and Then. Intellect Books. p. 129. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=agu3vbQl5QAC&pg=PA129.
- ^ Screech, Matthew (2005). Masters of the ninth art: bandes dessinées and Franco-Belgian identity. Liverpool University Press. p. 85. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=EvkGQnWZf1gC&pg=PA85.
