This is a detail from an oil painting, known as 'Village Dance' or 'Lowland Wedding', attributed to Dutch painter Emanuel De Witte (1617-92). It shows music and dancing at a celebration, probably a wedding, in a rural community.
The detail, from the left of the painting, contains in the foreground an elevated piper and a figure lying vomiting. In the background there is a man on horseback riding off with a woman - possibly the minister with another man's wife.
This type of painting was part of a European fashion for illustrating and sometimes parodying rural life. It gives a rare glimpse of those who served, and were dependent on, the nobility and landowners in 17th-century Scotland.
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