May Queen Festival
by BRAKENBURG, Richard, Oil on canvas, 41 x 48 cm
Richard Brakenburgh - together with Cornelis Dusart - belonged to the second generation of Adriaen van Ostade’s pupils. In his work the peasant genre became overlaid with petit-bourgeois mannerism and pictorial style became a cultivated convention.
The May Queen Festival imagines a lovely procession of country bumpkins, all as innocent as the girl who leads the quest for spring treats.