The Harvesters (painting)

The Harvesters
ArtistPieter Bruegel the Elder
Year1565
TypeOil on wood
Dimensions119 cm × 162 cm (46+7⁄8 in × 63+3⁄4 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist 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. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting as part of a cycle of six paintings depicting various seasonal transitions during the year.

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