BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger
(b. 1564, Brussel, d. 1638, Antwerpen)

Village Street with Peasants Dancing

1627-29
Oil on oak panel, 41 x 72 cm
Private collection

This is a rare example of a unique composition in Brueghel's oeuvre, and is entirely of his own devising. Although loosely related to the composition known in seven versions depicting peasants feasting before a long village street with the Swan Inn to the left, the composition of the present picture is known in no other versions.