David TeniersFlemish, 1610–1690Landscape with Peasants Dancing
May one see it?
Yes, receiving visitors
On public display.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
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.
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1996.271
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of David Teniers
The whole life1626–1650 · Workplace
Antwerp
1644
Dean of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke
He became dean of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke.
1647
Patronage of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, appointed governor of the Spanish Netherlands, became the artist's patron.
