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Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1564

The Procession to Calvary

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Christ falls under the cross in a vast landscape crowded with soldiers on horseback, onlookers and the two thieves in a cart, while the Virgin, Saint John and the women huddle in the foreground. A windmill on a rock and the hill of Golgotha rise in the distance. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Up to 11 × 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

11″8″

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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 Procession to Calvary

At 124 by 170 cm this is the second-largest known work by Bruegel. It appears in a 1566 inventory of the Antwerp collector Nicolaes Jonghelinck, and later passed through Prague under Rudolf II, Vienna and Paris in Napoleon's time before returning to Vienna.

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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