The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. These Catalog Numbers correspond to the numbering in Roger Hendrik Marijnissen's book, "Bruegel", with photographs by the Swiss art historian, Max Seidel (New York: Harrison House, 1984).
Image | Title | Year | Technique | Dimensions (cm) | Gallery | Catalog number |
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Seascape with Ships and a Burning City (disputed attribution) | 1553 | Oil on panel | 22.4 × 34.8 | Private collection, Switzerland | MS 1 | |
Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias | 1553 | Oil on panel | 67 x 100 | Private collection, New York | MS 2 | |
The Adoration of the Kings | c. 1556-1562 [1] | Tempera on canvas | 124 × 169 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | MS 4 | |
Parable of the Sower | 1557 | Oil on panel | 73.7 × 102.9 | Timken Museum of Art | MS 5 | |
Twelve Proverbs | 1558 | Oil on panel | 75 × 98 | Museum Mayer van den Bergh | ||
Netherlandish Proverbs | 1559 | Oil on panel | 117 × 163 | Berlin State Museums | MS 6 | |
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent | 1559 | Oil on panel | 118 × 164 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 7 | |
Children's Games | 1560 | Oil on panel | 118 × 161 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 8 | |
Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples | c. 1560 | Oil on panel | 42.2 × 71.2 | Doria Pamphilj Gallery | MS 9 | |
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (copy) | 1560s | Oil on canvas | 73.5 × 112 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | MS 3 | |
The Suicide of Saul | 1562 | Oil on panel | 33.5 × 55 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 10 | |
The Fall of the Rebel Angels | 1562 | Oil on panel | 117 × 162 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | MS 12 | |
Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) | 1562 | Oil on panel | 117.4 × 162 | Museum Mayer van den Bergh | MS 13 | |
The Triumph of Death | с. 1562 | Oil on panel | 117 × 162 | Prado | MS 14 | |
Two Monkeys | 1562 | Oil on panel | 20 × 23 | Berlin State Museums | MS 15 | |
The Tower of Babel | 1563 | Oil on panel | 114 × 155 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 16 | |
The Tower of Babel | 1563–1565 | Oil on panel | 59.9 × 74.6 | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | MS 17 | |
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt | 1563 | Oil on panel | 37.1 × 55.6 | Courtauld Institute Galleries | MS 18 | |
Portrait of an Old Woman | 1563 | Oil on panel | 22 × 18 | Alte Pinakothek | MS 38 | |
Yawning Man (disputed attribution) | c. 1563 | Oil on panel | 12.6 x 9.2 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | ||
The Adoration of the Kings | 1564 | Oil on panel | 111.1 × 83.2 | The National Gallery, London | MS 19 | |
The Procession to Calvary | 1564 | Oil on panel | 124 × 170 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 20 | |
Death of the Virgin | 1564 | Oil on panel | 36 × 55 | Upton House | MS 21 | |
Haymaking | 1565 | Oil on panel | 117 × 161 | Lobkowicz Palace at the Prague Castle Complex | MS 22 | |
The Harvesters | 1565 | Oil on panel | 116.5 × 159.5 | Metropolitan Museum of Art | MS 23 | |
The Return of the Herd | 1565 | Oil on panel | 117 × 159 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 24 | |
The Hunters in the Snow | 1565 | Oil on panel | 117 × 162 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 25 | |
The Gloomy Day | 1565 | Oil on panel | 118 × 163 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 26 | |
Massacre of the Innocents | 1565–1567 | Oil on panel | 109.2 × 158.1 | Royal Collection and at Upton House, Warwickshire | MS 27 | |
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap | 1565 | Oil on panel | 37 × 55.5 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and many copies; it is Bruegel's most copied work | MS 28 | |
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery | c. 1565 | Oil on panel | 24 × 34 | Courtauld Institute Galleries | MS 29 | |
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day | 1565–1568 | Tempera on canvas | 148 × 270.5 | Prado | ||
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day (copy) | 1565–1568 | Oil on canvas | 147 × 269.5 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | ||
The Census at Bethlehem | 1566 | Oil on panel | 115.5 × 163.5 | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium | MS 30 | |
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist | 1566 | Oil on panel | 95 × 160.5 | Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) | MS 31 | |
The Wedding Dance | c. 1566 | Oil on panel | 119.4 × 157.5 | Detroit Institute of Arts | MS 32 | |
The Land of Cockaigne | 1566 | Oil on panel | 52 × 78 | Alte Pinakothek | MS 37 | |
Adoration of the Kings in the Snow | 1567 | Tempera on panel | 35 × 55 | Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz', Winterthur | MS 33 | |
Conversion of Paul | 1567 | Oil on panel | 108 × 156 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 34 | |
The Peasant Wedding | 1568 | Oil on panel | 114 × 164 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 35 | |
The Peasant Dance | 1568 | Oil on panel | 114 × 164 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 36 | |
The Peasant and the Nest Robber | 1568 | Oil on panel | 59.3 × 68.3 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 39 | |
The Misanthrope | 1568 | Tempera on canvas | 86 × 85 | Museo di Capodimonte | MS 40 | |
The Beggars | 1568 | Oil on panel | 18.5 × 21.5 | Louvre | MS 41 | |
Parable of the Blind | 1568 | Tempera on canvas | 85.5 × 154 | Museo di Capodimonte | MS 42 | |
The Magpie on the Gallows | 1568 | Oil on panel | 45.9 × 50.8 | Hessisches Landesmuseum | MS 43 | |
The Three Soldiers | 1568 | Oil on panel | 20.3 × 17.8 | The Frick Collection | ||
The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty | 1568 | Oil on panel | 18 cm. diam. | Private Collection (Sold at Christies in 2002) | ||
The Storm at Sea (disputed attribution) | 1569 | Oil on panel | 70.3 × 97 | Kunsthistorisches Museum | MS 44 | |
Pieter Brueghelthe Younger was a Flemish painter known for numerous copies after his father Pieter Bruegel the Elder's work, as well as original compositions and Bruegelian pastiches. The large output of his studio, which produced for the local and export market, contributed to the international spread of his father's imagery.
Pieter Bruegelthe 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.
Brueghel, Bruegel or Van Breugel was the name of several Dutch/Flemish painters from the Brueghel family:
The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827.
The Harvesters is an oil painting on wood completed by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1565. It depicts the harvest time set in a landscape, in the months of July and August or late summer. Nicolaes Jonghelinck, a merchant banker and art collector from Antwerp, commissioned this painting as part of a cycle of six paintings depicting various seasonal transitions during the year.
The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted while Bruegel was in Rome and is now lost. The two surviving paintings, often distinguished by the prefix "Great" and "Little", are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam respectively. Both are oil paintings on wood panels.
The Peasant Wedding is a 1567 genre painting by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder, one of his many depicting peasant life. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Pieter Bruegel the Elder enjoyed painting peasants and different aspects of their lives in so many of his paintings that he has been called Peasant-Bruegel, but he was an intellectual, and many of his paintings have a symbolic meaning as well as a moral aspect.
Dulle Griet, also known as Mad Meg, is a figure of Flemish folklore who is the subject of a 1563 oil-on-panel by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting depicts a virago, Dulle Griet, who leads an army of women to pillage Hell, and is currently held and exhibited at the Museum Mayer van den Bergh in Antwerp.
Netherlandish Proverbs is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
The Hunters in the Snow, also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This scene is set in the depths of winter during December/January.
The Beggars or The Cripples is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1568. It is now in the Louvre in Paris.
The Misanthrope is a tempera painting on canvas by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, created in 1568. It currently is held and exhibited at the National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples, Italy.
Storm at Sea is an oil painting on panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in c. 1569. It is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The Procession to Calvary is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder of Christ carrying the Cross set in a large landscape, painted in 1564. It is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels is an oil-on-panel painting of 1562 by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The painting is 117cm x 162cm and is now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium. The Fall of Rebel Angels depicts Lucifer along with the other fallen angels that have been banished from heaven. Angels are falling from the sun in a stacked manner along with ungodly creatures that Bruegel created. This piece by Bruegel was previously thought to be by Hieronymus Bosch. Bruegel was influenced by a variety of artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Frans Floris I, and Hieronymus Bosch. He also got ideas for the creation of his creatures in his previous works.
Children's Games is an oil-on-panel by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1560. It is currently held and exhibited at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The entire composition is full of children playing a wide variety of games. Over 90 different games that were played by children at the time have been identified.
The Census at Bethlehem is an oil-on-panel by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1566. It is signed and measures about 1155 × 1645 mm. It is currently held and exhibited at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, which acquired it in 1902. It is one of the first paintings in Western art to feature a significant snow landscape and was painted in the aftermath of the winter of 1565, which was one of the harshest winters on record.
The Wedding Dance is a 1566 oil-on-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Owned by the museum of the Detroit Institute of Arts in Detroit, Michigan, the work was discovered by its director in England in 1930, and brought to Detroit. It is believed to be one of a set of three Bruegel works from around the same time: The Wedding Dance, The Peasant Wedding (1567) and The Peasant Dance (1569).
The Painter and The Buyer is a 1565 pen and ink on brown paper painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The alternative title is The Artist and The Connoisseur.
Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples is an oil painting on panel by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted from 1558 to 1562. It is in the Doria Pamphilj Gallery in Rome.