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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Fair at a Riverside Village

🖼 Fair at a Riverside Village, c. 1614
Oil on canvas
54 × 93 cm
Vizovice Castle, Czech Republic

Bustling crowds animate a riverside village fair, rendered in meticulous detail with tiny figures bargaining, trading, and celebrating among wooden stalls and boats. Brueghel captures daily commerce and rural festivity with the observational precision that defined Flemish art, documenting preindustrial market culture.

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