Provenance: Belonged to 1927 to the Dolores Fernández collection in Madrid
According website Museum:
These colorful pastries, presents a satirical show with a farmer-wedding with many of the characters, who are self-willed, and caricature it. The scene is full of stories and symbols, and is set in an interior, where the guests, in accordance with medieval usage, on the other side of the tables are seated according to their order of importance. The main character is a fat, deluded bride, a crown, a wooden spoon, a symbol of gluttony, and an egg-shell, skill, and passion. Behind her is displayed a red curtain as a canopy covered with a laurel wreath, stand out, elements that are common to the Flemish farmer-weddings in the 16th and 17th centuries. The rattlesnake of the wreath is, it refers back to the folly. The theme of this painting is a reflection of the medieval literature of the Netherlands, where the farmerclass was the subject of ridicule and satire. In the sixteenth century, the term "farmer" is synonymous with "foolish", so we were moralizer in the representation of the reprehensible actions of the classes that the middle classes of that time, as the heavens were to be considered. This painting belonged to the marquis de Leganés, the owner of one of the most important collections in Europe in the seventeenth century, it is considered to be by the hand of El is not a Problem. Even though there was very little information is known about the biography of Jan Mandijn, it seems as though he's in his home town, has been trained in before he became in 1530, settled in Antwerp, where he was till his death, lived, and where he was at 1549 to take part in the decoration of the arch of triumph, built to commemorate the arrival of king Philip II in that city. He was a member, along with Peter, Huys, and Jan Verbeeck, by a group of artists, which are characterized by the representation of a burlesque theme. Mandijn used in the painting of El Bosco to use his imagination to run wild, and acquired a reputation as "the author of the satanic and extravagance". [ASL]
Similar paintings can be seen at the Auctions at Dorotheum in Vienna on Oktober 18, 2016, Koller in Zurich (Switzerland) on September 19, 2016 lot 6511 and Christies in London on December 4, 2013 lot 132