Photo of Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Hunters in the Snow (Winter)

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Pieter Brueghel the Elder: The Hunters in the Snow

Artist



Alternative names	Pieter Breugel, Pieter Breughel, Pieter Brueghel, Peasant Brueghel
Description	Flemish painter, draughtsman and printmaker
Date of birth/death	between 1526 and 1530 date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1526-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1530-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	9 September 1569
Location of birth/death	Q1981676 or Breda	Brussels
Work location	Antwerp (1551–1563), Italy (1553), Brussels (1563–1569)
Authority control	: Q43270 VIAF: 95761864 ISNI: 0000 0001 2144 3618 ULAN: 500013247 LCCN: n80162848 NLA: 36158631 WorldCat

Details of artist on Google Art Project

Title

Monthly cycle, scene: The Hunters in the Snow (winter)

Object type

painting

Date

1565

Medium

oil on oak panel

Dimensions

Height: 1,170 mm (46.06 ″); Width: 1,620 mm (63.77 ″)

Collection

Kunsthistorisches Museum

	Native name	Kunsthistorisches Museum
	Location	Vienna, Austria
	Coordinates	48° 12′ 13.32″ N, 16° 21′ 42.48″ E
	Established	1872-1891
	Web page	khm.at/en
	Authority control	: Q95569 VIAF: 126584224 ISNI: 0000 0001 2115 9908 LCCN: n50056014 GND: 2016751-9 WorldCat

Current location

Level First Floor (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Picture Gallery, Hall X (Details of room on Google Art Project)

Accession number

GG_1838

Object history

Nicolaas Jongelinck; 1594 Geschenk der Stadt Antwerpen an Erzherzog Ernst; 1595 Nachlass Erzherzog Ernst; Rudolf II.; Slg. Leopold Wilhelm

Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom center: BRVEGEL. M.D.LXV

Notes

[Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank.
More info at museum site]

References

Web Gallery of Art

Authority control

: Q500985
Europeana: 15502/GG_1838

Source/Photographer

WgFmzFNNN74nUg at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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