about The Peasant Wedding

The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 genre painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life.

The bride is wearing a crown and sitting passively amidst the hearty eating and drinking around her. The bridegroom is not immediately obvious. The feast is in a barn in the summertime; Porters carry plates on a door taken off its hinges, two pipers play the pijpzak, an unbreeched boy in the foreground licks a plate, a wealthy man at the far right is talking to a Franciscan friar, and a dog emerges from under the table to snatch pieces of bread on the bench. The door carrier on the right appears to have an extra foot.