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]]> This serge by Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicts the feast of St Martin’s wine. On 11 November, the saint’s feast day, the Saint Martin’s goose was eaten (coinciding with the autumn slaughter) and the first wine of the new season, known as Saint Martin’s wine, was tasted. Precisely because the festival coincided with the end of the grape harvest, in the middle of autumn, the celebrations of the saint were associated with the distribution of the wine to the people, which took place outside the city gates. Despite the presence of Saint Martin parting his cloak on the right, this is neither a religious painting nor a devotional work. The depiction focuses on the celebration of the saint’s feast day, as it took place in Flanders and the Germanic countries.

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