The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa, ca. 1566, Pen and black-brown ink on white-prepared partially carved block of applewood, Overall: 10 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 1 1/8 in. (26.4 x 41.6 x 2.9 cm), Blocks, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, Breda (?) ca. 1525–1569 Brussels), This remarkable drawing represents a group of street performers putting on a comic folk play, The Dirty Bride (De Vuile Bruid) on the occasion of Shrovetide, the three days before Ash Wednesday. The coarse, bedraggled bride being led from a shabby nuptial tent is Nisa, while the prancing groom who leads her out is Mopsus
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Dirty Bride, Wedding, Mopsus, Nisa, ca, 1566, Pen, black-brown ink, white-prepared partially carved block, applewood, Overall, 10 3/8 x 16 1 1/8, 26.4 41.6 2.9 cm, Blocks, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish, Breda, ca., 1525–1569, Brussels, remarkable, drawing, represents, group, street performers, putting, comic folk, play, De Vuile, Bruid, occasion, Shrovetide, three days, Ash Wednesday, coarse, bedraggled bride, led, shabby nuptial, tent, prancing groom, leads, out
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