# Landscape with Peasants Playing Music and Dancing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIERRE, Jean-Baptiste-Marie]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 61 x 77 cm ## Commentary Winner of prize for painting at the Academy in 1734, this success earned Pierre stay at the Academy of France in Rome as a pensioner of the King from 1735 to 1740 under the direction of Nicolas Vleughels then Jean-Francois de Troy. The present painting was executed during the artist's stay in Rome. <p> <table align=left cellpadding=5 border=1 width=320 bgcolor="\#99cccc"> <tr valign=middle><td><img src="/support/gif/listen.gif" border=0 valign=middle> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 2 minutes\):<br><a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/18\_cent/rameau\_castor.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><b>Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux, March</b></a> </td></tr></table> ## Related artworks - [Bacchanal]() - [Ceiling painting]() - [Danaë]() - [Nativity]() - [Old Man in the Kitchen]() - [The Forge of Vulcan]() - [The Rape of Europa]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()