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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 93: 

Technical notes: The support consists of a copper
plate and has the same format as no. 92.
The figures are rendered in opaque paint with small
highlights in impasto. The foreground and background
have been painted thinly. Facial features lack subtlety
(compare with no. 91) and are not finely modelled but
are painted stiff in appearance.

The hay under the roof has been painted over the
background. The palette contains earth colours, red,
blue, yellow and white. The painting underwent conservation
treatment in 1840, 1935 and 1949.

Provenance: KM 1816, no. 437; NM 1866, no. 458.

Bibliography: Sander IV, p. 92, no. 437; Göthe 1887,
p. 105; Göthe 1893, p. 129; Granberg 1911, no. 404, p.
88; NM Cat. 1958, p. 90; NM Cat. 1990, p. 167.

This work is a companion piece to no. 92 and is a
small format painting on copper. The rendering of the
figures and the painting techniques are the same in
both works, which indicates that they must have come
from the same hand.

This painting depicts somewhat stiffly and with
shortcomings in terms of both perspective and proportion
a large number of peasants dancing, eating
and drinking. In the background, a bride and groom
and their guests are seated at a laden table. The bride
has a diadem on her head. Behind her hangs a fabric,
or drapery, fastened with two nails and decorated with
three round rings, probably allusions to the recent
marriage. Close to the main scene a number of individuals
are depicted drinking and gesticulating. In the
foreground we can see several peasants drinking and
dancing as well as children and dogs playing and
jumping. A man is standing on a barrel in the middle
ground playing an instrument, probably the bagpipes.
To the right in the background of the painting there is
a hearth and an open door through which a couple
with a dog are passing. On the left of the picture in the
middle ground and background there is another shelf
on which a number of copper vessels and pitchers have
been placed. Above the shelf and its vessels there is a
partly-open window which admits light into the room.
The wedding is taking place in a timber building. Protruding
thatch can be seen just under the roof.

As a result of the stiff execution of the figures in this
work and of the vessels in the arrangement as well as
the lack of modulation of the pigment, this work and
its companion piece are now considered to be the
work of a follower of Van Helmont.
KS
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