Campesinado; Historia rural; historia de la familia; campesinos; fiesta; campestre; celebración; rural; Teniers; siglo XVII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 19 May 2022 15:23:08 +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; fiesta; campestre; celebración; rural; Teniers; siglo XVII; Museo del Prado - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Country party https://historylab.es/country-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=country-party Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:43 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/fiesta-campestre/ Country feast and festive celebration of the peasantry in early modern Europe as depicted by Teniers

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]]> The group of villagers dance to the sounds of the bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy in honour of a bride who presides over the table in the background, surrounded by family members and guests. The landscape background reveals the presence of a church with a tall bell tower, where one of the figures could be Archduke Leopold William of Austria, governor of the Spanish Netherlands on behalf of Philip IV. With regard to popular country entertainments, Teniers painted relatively infrequently the world of peasant weddings considering the wide range of his paintings. This work was executed in 1637 and depicts the bride without her husband and seated with the backing of a large piece of cloth on which, in accordance with tradition, the wedding crowns are hung while the guests enjoy themselves dancing around the table. In keeping with Teniers’s pictorial trajectory, he concentrates on emphasising the festive spirit as a kind of joyful hubbub without adding elements or interpretations of a critical or scathing nature.

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