Pieter AertsenDutch, 1508–1575Bauernfest
May one see it?
Unknown
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
In the museum's own words — in German
Beschriftung: Signatur: auf dem Fensterkreuz dat. 1550. Monogramm sichtbar im IRR
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Particulars
In the catalog
Sources
- Kunsthistorisches Museum
- Image: Kunsthistorisches Museum — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Meanwhile, in the life of Pieter Aertsen
The whole life1535–1556 · Workplace
Antwerp
1550
Son born: Aert Pietersz
1550s
Invents the monumental genre scene
Having begun with religious works, in the 1550s Aertsen developed scenes in which furniture, cooking utensils and food are rendered with great flair and realism in the foreground, while the biblical subject is barely noticeable in the background; his peasant scenes preceded Pieter Bruegel the Elder's by a few years. His workshop trained Stradanus and his nephews Joachim and Huybrecht Beuckelaer.
