The Peasant Dance

The Peasant Dance
ArtistPieter Bruegel the Elder
Year1567
TypeOil on panel
Dimensions114 cm × 164 cm (45 in × 65 in)
LocationKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Peasant Dance (Dutch: De boerendans or De dorpskermis, lit. 'The Village Fair') is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in circa 1567. It was looted by Napoleon Bonaparte and brought to Paris in 1808, being returned in 1815. In is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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