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Crowded 17th-century style village street with brick houses, a church spire, a carriage, and small groups of colorfully dressed figures under a cloudy sky.

Flemish Village with a Puppet Player and Small Audience

A crowded village street under a brooding sky, with a church spire behind brick houses and a timber cottage at left. Small groups of figures in colorful dress gather, dance and wander near a horse-drawn carriage, while a dog roams the foreground.

Artist
Peeter Gijsels
Date
1650-1660
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3204 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1660.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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