Period: 17th century
Sold Oil painting on panel measuring 68 x 73 cm without frame and 84 x 89 cm with frame depicting an exuberant and joyful peasant party by a painter who approaches in style and type of representation to who was certainly his mentor, namely D. Teniers the Younger (Antwerp 1610 – Brussels 1690). This lovely genre scene, depicting a large peasant party, celebrates their beloved village; the party is very lively and lighthearted as we can see from a series of characters who have libertine movements and who are absolutely intent on celebrating in a very unbridled way. As mentioned, the author of this painting, referring to the style of Teniers, a specialist in these themes centered mainly on the life and customs of peasants, offers us a significant essay with his calibrated inventive collection of this peasant group in which at least three generations are gathered in celebration: from the main characters sitting at the table dedicated to toasting in their uncouth and amused poses with glasses in hand and jug on the ground, to the man who helps a woman to get up to other groups of people dedicated to joy and confusion with a whole series of utensils and objects presented here and there in an almost absent-minded way by our author. The costumes of our protagonists are carefully described with attention to detail and with a close realistic connection, as usually represented by Teniers who, with his work focused on the rural world (note on the right the noteworthy landscape background) has offered us a varied exemplification constituting a realistic documentation. At the same time, the author has been able to confer to these reconstructions in which the landscape always plays a role of contour or background a tasty pleasantness of inventiveness and setting accompanied by a pictorial fabric of refined level, played on chromaticism and chiaroscuro landscapes with effects close to pastel; peculiarity that has positively unfolded in this painting which can safely be considered a succulent anticipation of the eighteenth-century figurative culture. The work, like all our objects, is sold with a FIMA photographic certificate of authenticity and lawful provenance; this document identifies the object bringing added value to the item. We personally take care of and organize the packaging and shipping of works of art with insurance worldwide.