Landscape with Peasants Dancing
Sul dipinto
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Scheda
- Numero di inventario
- 1996.271
Nel frattempo, nella vita di David Teniers
Tutta la vita1626–1650 · Luogo di lavoro
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.
ottobre 1650 – 1690 · Luogo di lavoro
Brussels
1651
Court Painter in Brussels
Summoned by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm to the Brussels court, he was appointed court painter (pintor de cámara) and keeper of the archduke's extensive art collections.
1651
Journey to England to Buy Paintings
The Count of Fuensaldaña sent Teniers to England to purchase paintings from the Pembroke collection and, presumably, at other sales of confiscated collections.
