Why it matters
Bruegel sets a peasant wedding feast in a barn in summer: the bride sits passively beneath a paper crown, porters carry plates on an unhinged door and a boy licks a plate clean. The scene is said to accurately depict 16th-century peasant wedding customs.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1567.
- Bruegel painted peasants so often that he was nicknamed 'Peasant-Bruegel'.
- Who the groom is remains a matter of conjecture.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Peasant Wedding (CC BY-SA 4.0).
