Peasant Parlour with Noble Visitors
around 1566 | Marten van Cleve
Marten van Cleve studied under Frans Floris. Here he explores various relationships between urban patricians and the simple population of the countryside. On the right an aristocratic couple is giving food and drink to an infant held by a nursemaid, while on the left a nobleman is being served by peasants as he makes unseemly advances to the maidservant at the centre of the painting. Both the composition and the motifs are similar to The Visit at the Leasehold Farm by Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Marten van Cleve studied under Frans Floris. Here he explores various relationships between urban patricians and the simple population of the countryside. On the right an aristocratic couple is giving food and drink to an infant held by a nursemaid, while on the left a nobleman is being served by peasants as he makes unseemly advances to the maidservant at the centre of the painting. Both the composition and the motifs are similar to The Visit at the Leasehold Farm by Jan Brueghel the Elder.
Artist:
Marten van Cleve (1526/27 - 1581 Antwerpen) DNB
Time:
around 1566
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
123 cm × 144 cm
Framed: 124 cm × 155 cm × 6,5 cm
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 969
Provenance
Coll. Leopold Wilhelm