Pieter Bruegel the Elder / The Harvesters / 1565

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Harvesters
1565
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Creator Name: Brueghel, Pieter (the Elder)
Creator Nationality: European; Netherlandish
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Netherlandish, active by 1551, died 1569
Creator Name-CRT: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Title: The Harvesters
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1565
Creation End Date: 1565
Creation Date: 1565
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on wood
Dimensions: Overall, including added strips at top, bottom, and right, 46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in. (119 x 162 cm); original painted surface 45 7/8 x 62 7/8 in. (116.5 x 159.5 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 19.164
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

This panel is part of a series showing the seasons or times of the year, commissioned from Bruegel by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelinck. The series included six works, five of which survive. The other four are: "The Gloomy Day," "Hunters in the Snow," and "The Return of the Herd" (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna); and "Haymaking" (National Gallery, Prague).

This remarkable group of pictures is a watershed in the history of Western art. The religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism, and Bruegel's unidealized observation of the local scene is unified by his profound understanding of Italian Renaissance compositional principles.

AMICA ID: MMA_.19.164
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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