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]]> Domínguez Bécquer’s scene is set in the Soria village of Villaciervos. In front of the wall of a woodcutters’ house on the right of the canvas is an ox-drawn cart loaded with freshly cut beams of wood. When the work is finished to celebrate the break, two pairs of peasants and another pair of children dance in front of the cart to the beat of a drum played by a local man seated on the far left of the painting, wrapped in the white cloak typical of the village of Villaciervos. Next to him, a woman and a girl smile to the sound of the music. Other villagers watch the dance from the top of a wall or chatting happily by the roadside as they watch the dancers.

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