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The Village Fête (Rubens)

painting by Peter Paul Rubens

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ3814745 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Village Fête, La Kermesse or Noce de village. is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, created in 1635–1638, now in the Louvre Museum. It shows a 'kermesse' or village festivity.

Editorial summary

“The Village Fête (Rubens)” enters the record as painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Village, Fête and Rubens can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1635, 1638—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1635. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Village, Fête and Rubens.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“The Village Fête (Rubens)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Village, Fête and Rubens provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3814745. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1635 and 1638.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Village Fête (Rubens)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Village Fête (Rubens) primary sources, The Village Fête (Rubens) archive and Village research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Village Fête (Rubens)”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “The Village Fête (Rubens)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.