A Village Festival, by Pieter Brueghel the Younger

An image of A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony. Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (Flemish, c.1564-1637/8). Oil on panel, height 118.1 cm, width 158.4 cm, 1632.

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A Village Festival, With a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St Anthony. Brueghel, Pieter, the younger (Flemish, c.1564-1637/8). Oil on panel, height 118.1 cm, width 158.4 cm, 1632.

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Accession Number: 1192
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 766 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 181.10kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2012:07:30 13:59:13

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17th Century Bruegel Brueghel building comedic comedy comic dancers dancing drinking drunk drunkeness exterior fair festival festive fete fighting Fitz_PDP Flemish funny humorous humour inebriated inebriation merriment merrymaking oil on panel painting peasants performance performer performing Pieter Brueghel the younger processions revellers revelry rural rustic stage stalls theatre theatrical towns townsfolk village villagers

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