Curator’s note

The Harvesters

From Bruegel’s series of the seasons and a landmark of landscape painting. Its sweeping high view of golden wheat and resting harvesters makes human labor and nature’s cycle — not religion — the subject.

Source: Arterra 큐레이션

Date: 1565
Medium: Oil on oak
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)
On view: Gallery 638

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ArtistPieter Bruegel the Elder PeriodRenaissance CountryUnknown origin MuseumThe Metropolitan Museum of Art

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