BLOOT, Pieter de
(b. 1601, Rotterdam, d. 1658, Rotterdam)

Barn Interior

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Oil on panel, 33 x 44 cm
Private collection

Pieter de Bloot and Cornelis Saftleven, both in the circle of the 'Dutch Teniers Group', ensured that peasant themes remained popular during the second half of the 17th century when high-life genre painting emerged. The present painting, depicting a barn interior with peasants eating and dancing to the music of bagpipes, is a particularly fine and characteristic work by this talented and versatile painter.