Seven pale-skinned people crowd around a wooden table to our right in this horizontal painting, as several more gather around a fire in a deeply shadowed room beyond, to our left. The room we are in has high ceilings and peanut-brown walls and floor. At the center of the composition, a man dressed in mustard yellow with a yellow and burnt-orange jester’s cap stands facing us. His smiling mouth is agape, and he lifts his left arm, to our right, to gesture toward the group at the table there. His feet are widely planted, and a ceramic jug dangles from his other hand. At the table to our right,…
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Peasants Celebrating Twelfth Night

David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610 - 1690)

1635

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 47.2 x 69.9 cm (18 9/16 x 27 1/2 in.) ; framed: 67.3 x 90.2 cm (26 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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