The Egg Dance

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The Egg Dance
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Artist Pieter Aertsen   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Year1552
Medium oil paint, panel
Dimensions84 cm (33 in) × 172 cm (68 in)
Location Rijksmuseum, hall 0.6, Netherlands OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Collection Rijksmuseum   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Accession No.SK-A-3  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Identifiers RKDimages ID: 6732
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 20016677

The Egg Dance is a 1552 oil on panel genre painting by the Dutch artist Pieter Aertsen, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which bought it in 1839 from the collection of Colonel von Schepeler in Aachen. It depicts preparations for the Easter or carnival custom of an egg dance.