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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 ...
From 1850 to 1853, Millet worked on Harvesters Resting (Ruth and Boaz), [13] a painting he considered his most important, and on which he worked the longest. Conceived to rival his heroes Michelangelo and Poussin , it was also the painting that marked his transition from the depiction of symbolic imagery of peasant life to that of contemporary ...
Haymaking (French: Les foins) or Resting in the Fields [1] is an 1877 painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage. First exhibited at the 1878 Paris Salon, it was acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg in 1885 at the posthumous sale of the artist's works. It passed to the Louvre in 1929 and then to its current home in the Musée d'Orsay, in Paris, in 1980. [2]
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He had inherited some property from his parents which supplemented the good income that he made from his painting. He painted many maritime and rural scenes including harvesting and woodcutting showing contemporary people and their animals. [4] Ince died on 24 September 1859, and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery, London. Ince was a good ...
Summer Landscape with Harvesters is an oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish artists Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder.It was painted in the first quarter of the 17th century, probably around 1610, and is currently housed at the Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio.
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.