The Peasant Wedding
c. 1567 · Oil on oak panel · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525–1569)
- Year
- c. 1567
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel
- Original size
- 113 × 164 cm
- Collection
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
A wedding feast is crowded into a barn at harvest time: the bride sits quietly before a green cloth hanging with a paper crown above her head, two men carry bowls of porridge on a door taken off its hinges, a man fills jugs with beer, two pipers play, and a small boy in a feathered cap licks a plate in the foreground. Two sheaves of grain with a rake hang on the back wall. Bruegel painted the panel in about 1567, late in his career, when he favoured large, solid figures close to the picture plane. The food is plain, bread, porridge and soup, and the scene is thought to record peasant wedding customs of the time closely; the identity of the groom has never been settled, and suggestions include the man pouring beer and the man handing out plates. The panel was cut at the bottom and later extended by about five centimetres. Archduke Ernst bought it in Brussels in 1594, and it hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
This full-bleed edition prints the work edge to edge from a high-resolution scan of the original, very slightly cropped (a few percent at most) to fit the sheet. The gallery edition shows the whole work, uncropped. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A crowded harvest-time feast in a straw-coloured barn, red, white and blue figures carrying bowls past a green hanging, for a dining room or kitchen at 36×24 in natural wood. An ochre, cream or sage wall; it pairs with The Merry Family.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Northern Renaissance painting
- Era
- 16th century (c. 1567)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- kitchen, dining room, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 36×24. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard.
Framing. Printed edge to edge: a slim black or natural wood frame right to the image, or let the canvas wrap do the framing.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
