Hunters in the Snow, Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder·Hunters in the Snow·1565·Oil on panel·Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna↓

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Flemish, c. 1525 – 1569

Hunters in the Snow, 1565

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Weary hunters trudge home with a single fox, while below them villagers skate and play on frozen ponds. Part of a cycle of the seasons painted for an Antwerp merchant, it is one of the first great winter landscapes in Western art.

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The sign of the inn on the left is hanging loose from one hinge, and in front of it a family is burning the bristles off a pig.

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