Dutch school; early 18th century. "Landscape with Figures. Oil on panel. Measurements: 18,5 x 24,5 cm. The canvas shows a rural scene in which some peasants celebrate a meal and different games in front of several houses. Thus recreating a stylistic pattern typical of the genre scenes made by David Teniers (Antwerp, 1610 - Brussels, 1690). The scene features some of the pictorial devices popularised by the young David Teniers, who succeeded in revitalising the genre. In depicting these popular festivals, Teniers departed from the aesthetic and compositional schemes of Jan Brueghel "the Elder", repeating the same idyllic vision of the peasant world that was also widely used in Flemish literature of the time. It was embodied in the representation of the kermesse, the name given to neighbourhood festivals with food and drink stalls, where games of skill, children s games, raffles and artistic performances were held. It was undoubtedly in the paintings of the Dutch school that the consequences of the political emancipation of the region, as well as the economic prosperity of the liberal bourgeoisie, were most openly manifested. The combination of the discovery of nature, objective observation, the study of the concrete, the appreciation of the everyday, the taste for the real and the material, the sensitivity to the apparently insignificant, meant that the Dutch artist was at one with the reality of everyday life, without seeking any ideal that was alien to that same reality. The painter did not seek to transcend the present and the materiality of objective nature or to escape from tangible reality, but to envelop himself in it, to become intoxicated by it through the triumph of realism, a realism of pure illusory fiction, achieved thanks to a perfect, masterly technique and a conceptual subtlety in the lyrical treatment of light.