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Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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Crowded painting of peasants dancing on a village green under trees, with thatched cottages and a church spire behind them.

The wedding dance

1550

Snowy village scene with armored soldiers on horseback attacking townspeople among timber and brick houses and bare trees.

Massacre of the Innocents

1565

Panoramic painting of armored soldiers with pikes on a rocky slope, a fallen warrior on a ledge, and a river and city beyond.

The Suicide of Saul

1562

Painting of a huge spiraling tower under construction beside a harbor, with workers, ships, a town and countryside.

The Tower of Babel

1563

Pieter Brueghel the Elder's 1559 painting of a village square filled with figures acting out Dutch proverbs.

Netherlandish Proverbs (The Blue Cloak)

1559

Painting of a crowded peasant wedding feast in a barn, with servers, a bagpipe player and seated guests at tables.

The Peasant Wedding

1568

Crowded town square with dozens of children playing games such as hoops, stilts, and rolling a barrel, painted in 1560.

Children’s Games

1560

Winter landscape with hunters and dogs in snow, skaters on a frozen pond, a village and crows in bare trees.

monthly cycle, scene: The Hunters in the Snow (winter)

1565

Crowded hillside procession with soldiers on horseback, a windmill on a rock, and kneeling mourners in the foreground.

The Procession to Calvary

1564

Snowy Flemish village with villagers, carts, a frozen pond and skaters, bare trees and a crowd outside a tavern.

The People's Census at Bethlehem

1566

Painting of a peasant pointing up at a boy climbing an oak tree, with thatched cottages and fields in the background.

Nestausnehmer

1568

Painting of villagers dancing and drinking in a village square, with a bagpiper in the foreground and thatched cottages behin

The Peasant Dance

2010

Winter landscape with bare trees, a village of thatched houses, a stormy river with boats, and peasants in the foreground.

The Gloomy Day

1565

Painting of a crowded town square with villagers, Carnival figures on a barrel, market stalls and brick houses.

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

1559

Painting of cattle and herdsmen descending a bare winter hillside toward a river valley under a stormy sky.

The Return of the Herd

1565

Painting of armored soldiers and horsemen on a rocky mountain path among tall cypress trees, with a distant plain under a sto

Conversion of Paul

1567

Painting of crippled beggars on crutches and peg legs in a courtyard, with a hooded figure holding a bowl at right.

The Cripples / The Beggars

1568

Painting of armored angels battling grotesque hybrid demons falling from a blue sky into a crowded, fantastical landscape.

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

1562

Crowd of people under large trees listening to a preacher in a red robe, with a river and distant town in the background.

Sermon of St. John the Baptist

1566

Painting of harvesters cutting wheat in golden fields, with a resting group under a tree and a village in the distance.

The Harvesters

1565

Dense apocalyptic scene of an armored woman leading a charge past monsters, burning buildings, and battling crowds under a re

Dulle Griet

1561

Painting of villagers skating on a frozen river beside snowy cottages, bare trees, and crows under a pale winter sky.

Winter landscape with bird trap

1565

Grisaille painting of a kneeling figure writing in dust while a crowd surrounds a standing woman in pale robes.

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

1565

Landscape painting with a magpie on a gallows, peasants on a path, a village, a river valley, and a castle on a cliff.

The Magpie on the Gallows

1568

Painting of six blind men holding sticks, stumbling along a field toward a village church, the front man falling into a ditch

The Blind Leading the Blind

1568

Crowd of peasants climbing toward a red wine barrel while a mounted rider with a sword watches, in a brown rural landscape.

"The Wine Of Saint Martins Day"

1565

Panoramic landscape with rocky cliffs, a river valley, and a woman in red riding a donkey in the foreground.

Landscape with the flight into Egypt

1563

Circular painting of a bearded man in a dark cloak walking past a hoop-enclosed figure, with sheep and a windmill in the back

The Misanthrope

1568

Painting of the Adoration of the Kings: Mary holds the infant Christ as a kneeling king offers a gift amid a crowd of soldier

The Adoration of the Kings

1564

Painting of a massive spiral tower under construction beside a busy harbor with sailing ships, under stormy clouds.

The building of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:3-5)

1568

Painting of three soldiers: a drummer seen from behind, a flute player in a fur cap, and a figure behind a dark banner.

The Three Soldiers

1568

Painting of a rocky bay with sailboats, rowboats, wading figures, sheep on a path, and distant hilltop buildings under cloudy

Christ and Apostles at the Sea of Galilee

1553

Pen and ink drawing of a fantastical landscape with a reclining sleeper, snails, hybrid creatures and boats by a river.

Sloth

1557

Pen drawing of a giant fish devouring smaller fish, with fishermen in boats and a distant city on the shore.

The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish

1556

Pen drawing of villagers gardening in spring, digging beds and planting, with sheep and a distant town under trees.

Spring

1565

Pen drawing of the Last Judgment: enthroned Christ, trumpeting angels, a monster devouring people, and crowds below.

Pieter Bruegel (I), The Last Judgment, drawing in the Albertina

1558

The Painter and The Buyer

1566

Brown ink drawing of a village square where crowds of beggars receive bread and drink, dated 1559.

The Seven Virtues 3 Charity

1559

Pen drawing by Brueghel, 1559: a robed figure labeled Justicia amid guards and a crowd, with executions and gallows in the ba

Justicia by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1559

Pen and ink drawing of nude figures and grotesque demons in a fantastical landscape, titled Luxuria, by Bruegel, 1557.

Luxuria by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

1557

Pen drawing of a battle around a walled fortress, with a winged figure standing beside a column in the foreground.

Fortitude

1560

Pen and brown ink drawing by Brueghel showing a central allegorical woman with a ladder amid crowds, choir, organ, and worksh

Temperance

1560

Brown ink and wash drawing of a curved bay, a walled town under smoke, mountains, a boat and two figures on a rock.

View of Reggio Calabria on the Strait of Messina

1500

Pen drawing of a river valley with rocky mountains, three travelers in the foreground, grazing sheep, and a church tower.

Mountain Landscape with the Journey to Emmaus

Pen drawing of a valley with pine trees on the right, a mule caravan in the foreground and a distant village.

Mountain Landscape with a Mule Caravan

1552

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a large tree in the foreground, a walled town and rolling hills beyond.

Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome

1553

Pen and brown ink drawing of peasants and cattle in a wooded landscape beside a thatched farmhouse and windmill.

Peasants and Cattle near a Farmhouse

1553

Pen drawing of hooded figures tending beehives and baskets while another climbs a tree, with a village in the background.

The Beekeepers and the Birdnester

1568

Pen and brown wash drawing of a hilly landscape with convent buildings in the valley, framed by trees in the foreground.

Southern hilly landscape with convent buildings

1552

Pen drawing of an allegorical scene with a woman holding a mirror beside a peacock, surrounded by grotesque figures and fanta

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Superbia, 1557, collection Fondation Custodia, inv. 465

1557

Pen and ink drawing of an allegorical scene with a woman among coins, grotesque creatures and a burning village, by Brueghel,

Avarice by Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1556

1556

Pen drawing by Brueghel of grotesque figures feasting and drinking among barrels, trees and a distant burning town.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Gula, 1557, collection Fondation Custodia, inv. 466

1557

Pen and ink drawing of a flood with a sinking boat, drowning people, a fish, and a tower with prisoners behind bars.

Pieter Bruegel (der Ältere) - Spes, KdZ 715

Brown ink drawing of a large gnarled tree beside a brook, with a fisherman, a watermill and a distant village.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Brook with a fisherman and a watermill, c.1554

1554

Pen drawing of a church interior with an allegorical figure of Faith before a crowd, a ladder, a cross and a pulpit.

Faith

1559