The Harvesters
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565
Why it's great
Farm workers cut wheat under a hot sun, while a group sits under a tree to eat lunch, in a golden field. Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted it in 1565, as part of a series of the months, and it shows August.
Where to see it
📍 Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter born near Breda in about 1525. He lived in Antwerp and Brussels and became famous for crowded paintings of village life, proverbs and landscapes. He died in Brussels in 1569.
