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The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts the harvest time set in a landscape, in the months of July and August or late summer. [ 1 ] Nicolaes Jonghelinck , a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting as part of a cycle of six paintings depicting various ...
Harvesters is currently in the collection of Skagens Museum. [3] The relatively small work (56.2 x 43.4 cm) is based on an earlier, larger painting by Ancher I høstens tid (Harvest Time, 1901) which was acquired by Storstrøms Kunstmuseum. It can now be seen in the Fuglsang Art Museum on the island of Lolland.
The rurality of his native region was his main source of inspiration. Nicknamed the “painter of harvesters”, his works bears witness to the working and peasant social life of his time through scenes of rural or urban work. It was the painting The Harvesters' Pay (1882) that brought him notoriety and recognition from his peers.
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According to Paulson, Hogarth is subverting the religious establishment and the orthodox belief in an immanent God who intervenes in the lives of people and produces miracles. Indeed, Hogarth was a Deist, a believer in a God who created the universe but takes no direct hand in the lives of his creations. Thus, as a "comic history painter", he ...
The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil painting on wood panel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), executed in 1565. The most important of the Lobkowicz family's Northern pictures, it was hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink. This work was originally part of a series of six panels, each ...
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes St Paul Preaching in Athens A rare display of the tapestries in the Sistine Chapel, 2011 Christ's Charge to Peter. The Raphael Cartoons are seven large cartoons for tapestries, surviving from a set of ten cartoons, designed by the High Renaissance painter Raphael in 1515–1516.
According to The William Blake Archive, "The characteristics of the colour printing indicate that this impression is the first one printed from the larger matrix in 1795. The second impression in this printing is Pity in the Tate Collection (Butlin 310); the third impression is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Butlin 311)." [19]