# Landscape with Peasants Dancing

- By: David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690)
- Date: c. 1645–50
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 69 x 96.5 x 8 cm (27 3/16 x 38 x 3 1/8 in.); Unframed: 49 x 78 cm (19 5/16 x 30 11/16 in.)
- Culture: Flanders
- Credit line: Gift of the Frances W. Ingalls Trust
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.271)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.271/1996.271_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Before a rustic inn, a group of villagers converse, embrace, and dance to a bagpiper’s tune. Teniers was one of many Netherlandish artists whose paintings celebrate the joys of country life. These delicately painted works were created primarily for an elite urban audience nostalgic for a simpler existence.