# The Rabbit Hunters, in Pieter Bruegel

Pieter Bruegel made this in 1560, aged 35. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> In a vast landscape that stretches from a castle on a cliff to a distant city and an estuary dotted with sailboats, a hunter creeps up on two rabbits, while behind him a second figure approaches, as if the hunter were himself being stalked.

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## The work

- Date: 1560
- Medium: etching on laid paper
- Dimensions: overall: 21.4 x 29.2 cm (8 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Type: Print
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1972.16.1
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pieter Bruegel](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pieter-bruegel), Netherlandish, c. 1525/30–1569

Bruegel trained in Antwerp, travelled through Italy in the early 1550s, and on his return made drawings for the publisher Hieronymus Cock, many in the manner of Hieronymus Bosch. In 1563 he moved to Brussels.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Pieter Bruegel's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-pieter-bruegel?hang=749) (8 works)
- [More Northern Renaissance](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/northern-renaissance?hang=749) (62 works)
- [16th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/16-netherlands?hang=749) (35 works)

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