The Return of the Herd

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The Return of the Herd

Artist	Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Year	1565
Type	Oil on wood
Dimensions	117 cm× 159 cm(46 in× 62+1⁄2 in)
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Return of the Herd is a panel painting in oils by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, made in 1565. It is one in a series of six works (High Springtime is presumed lost) that depict different seasons. The painting is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. The autumnal colors of the landscape and the bare trees connect this particular painting to October/November.

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The surviving Months of the Year cycle are:

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Return of the Herd .

The Return of the Herd at Kunsthistorisches Museum website (in German)

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints , a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on The Return of the Herd

Labours of the months by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Hunters in the Snow
(Dec.–Jan.)

The Gloomy Day
(Feb.–Mar.)

Missing
(Apr.–May)

The Hay Harvest
(Jun.–Jul.)

The Harvesters
(Aug.–Sep.)

The Return of the Herd
(Oct.–Nov.)

v t e Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Paintings	List of paintings Parable of the Sower (1557) Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples (1558–1562) The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) Children's Games (1560) Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1560) The Triumph of Death (c. 1562) The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) The Suicide of Saul (1562) Two Monkeys (1562) Dull Gret (1563) Adoration of the Magi in the Snow (1563) The Tower of Babel (1563) Landscape with the Flight into Egypt (1563) Adoration of the Kings (1564) The Death of the Virgin (1564) The Procession to Calvary (1564) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1565) The Gloomy Day (1565) The Harvesters (1565) The Hay Harvest (1565) The Return of the Herd (1565) The Wine of Saint Martin's Day (c. 1565–1568) The Hunters in the Snow (1565) Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565) Massacre of the Innocents (c. 1565–1567) The Census at Bethlehem (1566) The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist (1566) The Wedding Dance (1566) Conversion of Paul (1567) The Land of Cockaigne (1567) The Peasant Wedding (1567) The Peasant Dance (c. 1567) The Beggars (1568) The Peasant and the Nest Robber (1568) The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) The Magpie on the Gallows (1568) The Misanthrope (1568) The Storm at Sea (c. 1569)
Drawings	The Painter and The Buyer (1565)
Related	Pieter Brueghel the Younger (son) Jan Brueghel the Elder (son) Jan Brueghel the Younger (grandson) Breugel, Netherlands Son en Breugel The Mill and the Cross (2011 film) Bruegel (crater) 9664 Brueghel Bruegel (think tank)

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The Return of the Herd

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