Six centuries of artistic creation
1564-1636
Pieter Brueghel the Younger painted this work, reproducing with minor variants a composition made by his father, Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1525-1569). The interest in rural themes, the representation of anonymous figures, the desire to capture the atmosphere and the "moving narrative", to observe human behaviour, were all remarkable innovations in the painting of the time. Despite having been mostly seen for many years as an artist who followed and disseminated his father's style Brueghel the Younger reveals an adept skill in drawing and painting, also contributing new iconographic elements which translate a more pragmatic and realistic vision of the world. Until now only five versions of this "Wedding Feast", attributed to Pieter Brueghel the Younger, are known. Only two are dated and signed, this being the oldest of the dated versions.
| Oil on oakwood, 75 x 107 cm
| ÉVORA. National Museum Frei Manuel do Cenáculo
