The Dance of the Villagers is a 1635 painting by Peter Paul Rubens.now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.It is closely related to The Village Fête, of a similar date and on a similar subject.After Rubens' death, Philip IV of Spain sent his ambassador to buy paintings from the artist's estate - he bought this one for 800 florins and the king hang it in his summer dining room in the old Royal Alcázar of Madrid.This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub.