Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c.1520 - 1569) was a Flemish painter, born in Bruegel. He was the father of Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel the Elder.

He specialised in landscapes populated by peasants, painted in a simpler style than the Italianate art that prevailed at the time. Nicknamed 'Peasant Brueghel' to distinguish him from other members of the Brueghel dynasty.

Works

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus c.1558
Netherlandish Proverbs 1559
The Triumph of Death c. 1562, Museo del Prado, Madrid
Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) c. 1562, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
The Tower of Babel 1563, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
The "Little" Tower of Babel c. 1563, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The Procession to Calvary 1564, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
The Adoration of the Kings 1564, The National Gallery, London
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1565, Wiltshire, Wilton House
The Hunters in the Snow 1565, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
The Harvesters 1565, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The painter and the buyer c. 1565, Albertina, Vienna
The Blind Leading the Blind 1568
The Peasant Wedding 1568
The Peasant Dance 1568, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna
The Beggars 1568 , Louvre
The Death of the Virgin
The Fall of the Rebel Angels