The peasant dance

Bruegel, Pieter, I (ca. 1525-1569)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
1568-1569
Height:
114.0 cm  (44 7/8 in.)
Width:
164.0 cm  (64 9/16 in.)

Additional titles

Bauerntanz

    Item location

  • Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wien)
    Gemäldegalerie[Museum inv. no.: GG 1059]

Description

Folk scene with several peasants dancing with a male bagpipe player.

Iconclass

43C942
folk dancing (men and women together)

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]

RIdIM images


© KHM-Museumsverband

Detail of bagpipe. © KHM-Museumsverband

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Friedlaender, Max J. From VanEyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish painting (London: Phaidon Press, 1956) 136, plate #290.

RIdIM record id

371