Important 17th Century Painting

Important painting representing a Flemish fair. This village festival highlights peasants seated at tables, partying and dancing in a small village. The background of the painting is occupied by the villagers celebrating. The foreground is reserved for notables who, riders, pedestrians or leaving the coach, seem to pose for the painting. The representations of village festivals and fairs appear with Dürer. The Flemish painters fully appropriate these genre scenes and it is Brueghel the elder who will put this style of paintings in fashion, followed by many talented painters. Through these paintings, they manage to transport us around, and success comes in particular through the festive character deployed but also by the number of details teeming in these paintings. Here, a peasant is busy drawing water (bottom left), there another relieves himself at the foot of the wall of the house, while the priest is talking with 2 women and a solitary rider stares at us as if he had a message for us! Table in house condition; 17th century canvas reentoilée; old restorations Posterior frame from the beginning of the 19th century, sized for the painting. Visible accidents and restorations to the frame. Flemish school from the second half of the 17th century. Framed dimensions: Height: 131 cm. Width: 172.5 cm. Dimensions of the canvas: Height: 103.5 cm. Width: 150 cm. Worldwide delivery possible