page_title: Peeter van Bredael
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Peeter van Bredael / Work
context_page_description: Pieter van Bredael or Peeter van Bredael was a Flemish painter specializing in market scenes and village feasts set in Italianate landscapes or contemporary, usually, urban environments.
context_section_description: Pieter van Bredael is mainly known for his scenes of Roman cattle markets amidst a landscape of buildings, often ruins from Antiquity, Italian pastoral landscapes and less often battle pieces. He also depicted genre scenes such as village festivals, processions and a commedia dell’arte scene. Van Bredael's very imaginative market scenes succeeded in illustrating various aspects of everyday town life. Van Bredael was often influenced by Italian architectural forms.
  He worked as a copyist and is known to have copied battle scenes of the Dutch painter Philips Wouwerman.  A drawing of an Equestrian Battle in the Mauritshuis has been attributed to van Bredael as being a copy after Wouwerman.
caption: Commedia dell’arte scene
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