The Peasant Wedding

The Peasant Wedding

Infobox Painting|

title=The Peasant Wedding
artist=Pieter Brueghel the Elder
year=1567-1568
type=Oil on canvas
height=124
width=164
city=Kunsthistorisches Museum
museum=Vienna

"The Peasant Wedding" is a 1567 or 1568 painting by the Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Brueghel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is currently housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

The bride is under the canopy, and the groom is uncertain, but "may" be the man in black, to the left of the largest figure, leaning back, with a mug in hand. Musicians play, and an unbreeched boy in the foreground licks a plate.

The feast is in a barn; two ears of corn with a rake reminding us of the work that harvesting involves, and the hard lot peasants have. The plates are carried on a door off its hinges. The main food was bread, porridge and soup.

The painting was parodied in Asterix in Belgium (see: http://asterix.openscroll.org/books/asterix_in_belgium.html) It is also referred in David Keplinger's The Clearing, in the poem "Three Visions of the Peril of Art". The second section of this poem is called "Brueghel's 'Peasant Wedding'" and discusses in part about the missing groom.

External links

* [http://bama.ua.edu/~emartin/food/bruegel/sld011.htm One site]
* [http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30139/print/ "The Onion" pokes fun at the painting]


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