# The Harvesters, in The Northern Renaissance

Pieter Bruegel painted this in 1565, aged 40. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> In the heat of late summer, peasants break for a midday meal under a pear tree, sharing bread and fruit, while one man sprawls asleep and others go on scything and binding the golden wheat. Beyond, the landscape opens onto a village, a church and a distant harbour.

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## The work

- 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)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19.164
- 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

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