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Description: | Though the Dutch inscription on this work by the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Adriaen van der Venne, meaning ''It is pitiful'', is not a proverb, it adds humour to this squalid scene of peasants brawling, and establishes a moral and social distance between the subject matter and the artist, and later the owner or viewer of the work. In this way, the peasant class in the Dutch Republic was both romanticised, dehumanised, and made less threatening to the wealthier, painting buying members of the public. Adriaen van der Venne's work was influenced by another renowned painter of low life peasant scenes, Pieter Brueghel the Elder. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Venne, Adriaen van de (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1589-1662) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Bruegel, Pieter, the elder (Flemish painter, ca. 1525-1569) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8415... | Go to resource |
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