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Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The winter panel from Bruegel's cycle of the seasons, painted on oak that responds sharply to any change in humidity.
- Artist
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Date
- 1565
- Medium
- Oil on oak panel
- Dimensions
- 117 × 162 cm
- Location
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
History
What the record shows
One of six panels commissioned by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelinck, five of which survive.
The oak support has an established movement history; the museum permits loans only under sealed, buffered conditions.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Commissioned by Niclaes Jongelinck, Antwerp, 1565
- 02City of Antwerp, 1566
- 03Imperial Habsburg collections, Vienna, by 1594
- 04Kunsthistorisches Museum from 1891
