Artist: Jan Brueghel The Elder
Date: 1600
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Oil On Copper
This magnificent landscape (in perfect condition) depicts a Kermis or fair, during which a religious festival is celebrated by a rustic street party. The subject had been treated by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, in his Peasant Dance of c.1568 as a Vanity Fair of drink-fuelled folly and vice. Jan Brueghel by contrast sees the Kermis as an emblem of the happiness of a well-ordered society at play. He adopts his father
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