This is a fair to celebrate St George’s day, whose banner appears hanging from the upper window of the inn to the left. Teniers’s painting of the 1660s is a conscious tribute to the tradition of the Bruegel family, harking back to examples by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from a century earlier, but most obviously resembling the multi-figure, multi-episode crowd scenes of Jan Breughel (compare CWLF 9, 405513). Its desire to pack in as much comic incident as possible gives it the air of an animated film.