Landscape with Peasants Dancing (c. 1645–50): Art, History and Details

Landscape with Peasants Dancing (c. 1645–50) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape with Peasants Dancing
• Date: c. 1645–50
• Creator attribution: David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
• Culture: Flanders
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on wood
• Dimensions: Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
• Collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish
• Department: European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1996.271

A detail from the museum

This painting combines two of David Teniers's specialties: landscape and scenes of country life.

Collection credit

Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust

Further reading listed by the museum

• Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
• Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.
• Saemy Rosenberg, letter to Jane Taft Ingalls, June 7, 1949, in CMA curatorial file.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.