LINGELBACH, Johannes
(b. 1622, Frankfurt/Main, d. 1674, Amsterdam)

Peasants Dancing

c. 1651
Oil on canvas, 67 x 75 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This early canvas by Lingelbach is one of the first painted by the artist after he settled in Amsterdam in 1650 after six years in Rome. His debts to other painters who had been active in Rome, in particular Pieter van Laer, Jan Miel, and Michelangelo Cerquozzi are well illustrated in the painting.