Peasants merrymaking

Uden, Lucas van (1595-1672)

Teniers, David, II (1610-1690)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

early 1640s

Height:

122.2 cm  (48 1/8 in.)

Width:

218.0 cm  (85 13/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

A solitary bagpiper accompanies two couples dancing out of doors.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746] (one drone is much longer than the other and the chanter, though slightly conical has no expanded bell.)

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 9-10. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

2615