Pieter Bruegel The Elder The Harvesters 1565

The painting is one in a series of six works five of which are still intact that depict different times of the year.

Pieter bruegel the elder the harvesters 1565. W1619 x h1191 mm type. Nicolaes jonghelinck a merchant banker and art collector from antwerp commissioned this painting. Niclaes jongelinck antwerp by 1566. Sold for fl 1 400 to antwerp city council as a gift for archduke ernst.

Hane von wijke antwerp until 1594. The power of the catholic church was eroded by the humanism and intellectualism that spread from italy s high renaissance and the new protestant reformation. The return of the herd is an oil on wood painting by pieter bruegel in 1565. Pieter bruegel the elder netherlandish breda ca.

Oil on wood dimensions. Pieter bruegel also brueghel or breughel the elder ˈ b r ɔɪ ɡ əl also us. It depicts the harvest time in the months of july and august or late summer. Pieter bruegel the elder date.

Photographed by google arts and culture. 116 5 x 159 5 cm classification. Archduke ernst governor of. It depicts the harvest time which most commonly occurred within the months of august and september.

ˈ b r uː ɡ əl. The harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by pieter bruegel the elder in 1565. 1525 1530 9 september 1569 was the most significant artist of dutch and flemish renaissance painting a painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes so called genre painting. Overall including added strips at top bottom and right 46 7 8 x 63 3 4 in.

Oil on wood provenance extent. From the metropolitan museum of art pieter bruegel the elder the harvesters 1565 oil on wood 46 7 8 63 3 4 in. 119 x 162 cm. The harvesters painted by pieter bruegel the elder in 1565 represents a watershed in the history of western art at at time when the religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism and the unidealized description of.

The harvesters by pieter bruegel the elder 1565 from the collection of the metropolitan museum of art. He was a pioneer in making both types of. Original painted surface 45 7 8 x 62 7 8 in. Bruegel s early work was an almost perfect mirror of the demonological themes that heironymus bosch had.

The harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by pieter bruegel the elder in 1565. Pieter bruegel the elder the harvesters 1565 on view at the met fifth avenue in gallery 642 the first modern landscape.