Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1559
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
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A crowded Flemish market square where Carnival, a stout butcher astride a beer barrel, jousts with Lent, a thin woman on a cart, between an inn on the left and a church on the right. Nearly 200 figures play, feast, beg and pray around them. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Up to 11.2 × 8 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 Fight Between Carnival and Lent
Bruegel painted this oak panel in 1559, the same year as his Netherlandish Proverbs, in the period when he moved from drawing to panel painting. The contest of Carnival and Lent has literary roots going back to about the year 400, and a direct visual source was a 1558 etching by Hieronymus Cock after Frans Hogenberg. The panel measures 118 by 164 cm.
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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