Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1565
The Harvesters
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Late summer in the Flemish countryside: reapers cut a golden wheat field while their companions eat and drink in the shade of a pear tree, one man asleep beside them, with a village church and a wide bay beyond. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Up to 16.3 × 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 Harvesters
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts harvest time in a landscape, in the months of July and August, or late summer. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned it as part of a cycle of six paintings showing the seasonal transitions of the year. Its companions include The Hunters in the Snow, The Gloomy Day and The Return of the Herd in Vienna and The Hay Harvest in Prague.
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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