Pieter Bruegel the Elder was famous for painting scenes from peasant life and here he depicts a wedding feast that would have followed a Church wedding ceremony. Bruegel's "Peasant Wedding Feast" encapsulates the joy of peasant life, contrary to popular belief. The painting demonstrates eking all marrow out of life from the small boy in the foreground eating every last morsel of pie to the bride, strangely placed in the background, who looks on the humble scene with contentment. The barn setting provides ample space for the makeshift banquet, set out on a long row of tables. Approximately twenty guests are gathered at the table, while others crowd about the entrance at the far left, probably due to the laws that were passed limiting the number of participants. The time is early autumn, as indicated by the sheaves of wheat, the last of the harvest, hanging on the wall. Despite the crowded and chaotic atmosphere, Wedding Feast exhibits a sophisticated composition, in which the diagon ; 44 7/8 x 64 1/8 in.