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David Teniers

Village Festival

c. 1646–50
oil on canvas
37.7 × 71.3 cm (14.8 × 28.1 in)

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Surviving drawings show that Teniers sketched many peasants from life, and similar figures appear throughout his peasant paintings from about 1640 to 1660.

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