Peasants scythe and bind golden wheat under a hot late-summer sky, while others break under a tree for bread, cheese and pears. Painted for the Antwerp banker Nicolaes Jonghelinck, it belongs to a cycle of the times of the year, five of which survive. The Met calls it the first modern landscape.
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Beyond the fields, villagers play the cruel game of cock-throwing, figures bathe in a pond and ships sit on the distant water. At far right, someone climbs a tree to pick fruit.
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