The Peasant Wedding

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

c. 1567 · Oil on oak panel · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

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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 exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. 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 24×36 in natural wood. An ochre, cream or sage wall; it pairs with The Merry Family.

Style, size & framing detail

Style: Exhibition poster of a Northern Renaissance painting
Era: 16th century (c. 1567)
Orientation: Portrait
Palette: cream & beige
Mood: classic
Rooms: kitchen, dining room, living room, dorm room, hallway or entryway
Good gift for: housewarming, art lovers

Size. We'd hang this one at 24×36. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.

Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.

Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; every size also available framed • Framed option: wood frame in black or natural wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Printed after you order at the facility nearest you, then shipped. Standard delivery is free and takes 4–9 business days from order to door in the US, UK and EU (up to 10 elsewhere); Express takes 4–6 business days. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is The Peasant Wedding in the public domain?

Yes. Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525–1569) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by Kunsthistorisches Museum.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; every size is also offered framed in black or natural wood, with plexiglass and no mat. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was The Peasant Wedding painted, and in what medium?

The Peasant Wedding dates from c. 1567 and was made in oil on oak panel; the original measures 113 × 164 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

Across a three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 is the size that reads as one statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pair. For The Peasant Wedding we'd choose 24×36.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Peasant Wedding — the Peasant Wedding — a crowded barn feast, the bride beneath a green cloth and the porridge carried round on a door — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Bruegel: The Peasant and the Seasons, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Every size is offered unframed or framed in black or natural wood. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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