Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1568
The Beggars (The Cripples)
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Five crippled beggars on crutches and wooden stumps drag themselves across a sunlit courtyard between brick walls, each in a different hat: a paper crown, a soldier's cap, a beret, a peasant cap and a bishop's mitre. Fox tails hang from their clothes. A woman with an alms bowl walks away at the right. Louvre, Paris.
Up to 14.1 × 12 in · landscape
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Beggars (The Cripples)
This tiny panel (18.5 by 21.5 cm) was painted in 1568 during the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, and some scholars read the fox tails as a reference to the Gueux rebels. Similar motifs appear in Bruegel's earlier work, so the meaning remains debated.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was among the most significant artists of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes ; he was a pioneer in presenting both types of subject as large paintings.
All Pieter Bruegel the Elder prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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