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| Keywords: The Peasant Feast.jpg This is the most widely distributed and best known scene in the Teniers genre The representation of a Peasant Feast sometimes a carnival or a wedding with country folk sitting at a meal in front of an inn while others dance to the sound of bagpipes or vielle approaches most closely the type of rural feast distributed by David II Teniers He created the classic setting for these events with a farmhouse or inn seen from the side alternately on the left or the right of the composition and one or more large trees on a level area cf each of these types in the Hermitage St Petersburg inv 594 and 1719 or the Gemäldegalerie Dresden inv 1070 and 1083 In the later Brussels tapestries the piper usually stands upright on an empty barrel and the vielle player sits sideways with a group of children A group of figures is often placed by a well or a herd of pigs to balance the diners and dancers 18th century Postcard by Artaud Frères from Château d ™Ussé gift shop author PD-old-100 Uploaded_with_UploadWizard Château d ™Ussé Flemish tapestry Peasants_in_18th_century_art Tapestries in France Feasts in art | ||||
