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 Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1640. Place of creation: Flanders, 17th century. 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.). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. Clevelandart 1996.271
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