Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; aldeanos; conversación; ganadería; siglo XVII; pintura; Teniers; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:23:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; aldeanos; conversación; ganadería; siglo XVII; pintura; Teniers; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Villagers talking https://historylab.es/villagers-talking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=villagers-talking Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/aldeanos-conversando/ Villagers chatting outside while carrying out different livestock tasks

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]]> Villagers chat as they engage in peasant activities. The work is the result of Teniers’ production of rural scenes illustrating everyday life in the Flanders countryside, especially in the 1640s. The presence of a house in the foreground and a background on the other side of the painting are typical of this type of painting. They are depicted collecting water from a well, cleaning or milking the cow that is coming out of the cowshed, as the composition depicts a large container with a peasant at the ready.

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