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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 ...
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.
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.
Le Ballon (1886) - Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; The Harvesters (1885) - The Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, Florida; The Harvester (c.1880/1) - Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia; Home From the Pasture (n.d.) - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina [citation needed]
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The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It was commissioned by Nicolaes Jonghelinck , a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp. Depicting the harvest, in July, August or late summer, the painting is one in a series of six works representing different times of the year.
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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 ...