The Harvesters

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Painted

1565

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

High summer: some peasants cut and bind the wheat while others eat bread and porridge in the shade of a pear tree, and one lies flat out asleep. One of Bruegel's six paintings of the seasons, it is among the first pictures in Western art to make labour and landscape themselves the subject rather than religion or myth.

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