page_title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder / Selected works
context_page_description: Pieter Bruegel the Elder was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes; he was a pioneer in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings.
  He was a formative influence on Dutch Golden Age painting and later painting in general in his innovative choices of subject matter, as one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the natural subject matter of painting. He also painted no portraits, the other mainstay of Netherlandish art. After his training and travels to Italy, he returned in 1555 to settle in Antwerp, where he worked mainly as a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the day. Only towards the end of the decade did he switch to make painting his main medium, and all his famous paintings come from the following period of little more than a decade before his early death, when he was probably in his early forties, and at the height of his powers.
context_section_description: Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, 1553, probably with Maarten de Vos, private collection
  Parable of the Sower, 1557, Timken Museum of Art, San Diego
  Twelve Proverbs, 1558, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
  Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, probably 1550s, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels – Note: Now seen as a copy of a lost authentic Bruegel painting
  The Blue Cloak (or Flemish Proverbs), 1559, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  Portrait of an Old Woman, 1560, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  Temperance, 1560
  Children's Games, 1560, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples, 1560, Galleria Doria-Pamphilj, Rome
  The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
  The Suicide of Saul (Battle Against The Philistines on the Gilboa), 1562, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  Two Monkeys, 1562, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  The Triumph of Death, c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid
  Dulle Griet (Mad Meg), c. 1563, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
  The "Large" Tower of Babel, 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The "Little" Tower of Babel, c. 1563, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
  The Death of the Virgin, 1564, (grisaille), Upton House, Banbury
  The Procession to Calvary, 1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Adoration of the Kings, 1564, The National Gallery, London
  Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, 1565, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, inv. 8724
  The Months, a cycle of probably six paintings of the months or seasons, of which five remain:
  The Hunters in the Snow (Dec.–Jan.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Gloomy Day (Feb.–Mar.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Hay Harvest (June–July), 1565, Lobkowicz Palace at the Prague Castle Complex, Czech Republic
  The Harvesters (Aug.-Sept.), 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  The Return of the Herd (Oct.–Nov.), 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1565), Courtauld Institute of Art, London
  Preaching of John the Baptist, 1566, Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
  The Census at Bethlehem, 1566, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
  The Wedding Dance, c. 1566, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
  Conversion of Paul, 1567, Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna
  Massacre of the Innocents, c. 1567, versions at Royal Collection, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, at Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, and at Upton House, Banbury
  The Land of Cockaigne, 1567, Alte Pinakothek, Munich
  The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, 1567, Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur
  The Magpie on the Gallows, 1568, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt
  The Misanthrope, 1568,  Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
  The Blind Leading the Blind, 1568, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
  The Peasant Wedding, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Peasant Dance, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Beggars (The Cripples), 1568, Louvre, Paris
  The Peasant and the Nest Robber, 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
  The Three Soldiers, 1568, The Frick Collection, New York City
  The Storm at Sea, an unfinished work, probably Bruegel's last painting.
  The Wine of Saint Martin's Day, Museo del Prado, Madrid (discovered in 2010)
  Prints and drawings
  Large Fish Eat Small Fish, 1556; we have both Bruegel's design and prints after it
  Ass at School, 1556, drawing, Print room, Berlin State Museums
  The Calumny of Apelles, 1565, drawing, British Museum, London
  The Painter and the Connoisseur, drawing, c. 1565, Albertina, Vienna
  Village views with trees and a mule, 1526–1569, The Phoebus Foundation
caption: Children's Games (1560), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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