'The Village Fair') is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in circa 1567.

[4] The occasion for the peasants' revelry is a Saint's day, but dancers turn their backs on the church and pay no attention whatsoever to the image of the Virgin Mary which hangs on the tree.

The rough faces of all the figures painted in this art piece, particularly the large man in the center and those seated around the table, reveal teeth and facial expressions that visually communicate something of the unrefined or primitive quality of the peasant dance.

[6] To the left of the central peasant dressed in black in the foreground, a second recessional corridor invites the viewer into the fictive space of the painting.

There is a cascade of faces, beginning with the profile of the central figure, then that of a peasant woman, then a man from the city, finally leading to a smiling jester in the distance.