Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(c.1525–1569)

The artist’s works:

Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples
c.1551–1553
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Roma

The Adoration of the Kings
c.1556
Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels

Parable of the Sower (1557)

Parable of the Sower
1557
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
c.1558
Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels

Twelve Proverbs
c.1558
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent
1559
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Netherlandish Proverbs (1559)

Netherlandish Proverbs
1559
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Children’s Games
1560
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Head of an Old Farmer’s Wife
c.1560–1565
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Rabbit Hunt
1560
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

Dulle Griet
1561
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

The Bagpipe Player
c.1562
National Gallery of Art, Washington

The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562)

The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1562
Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels

The Suicide of Saul
1562
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Triumph of Death
1562–1563
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Two Chained Monkeys
1562
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
1563
Courtauld Institute of Art, London

The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (1563)

The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow
1563
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur

The Tower of Babel
1563
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Adoration of the Kings
1564
National Gallery, London

The Dormition of the Virgin
c.1564
Upton House and Gardens, England

The Procession to Calvary
1564
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1565)

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
1565
Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Gloomy Day
1565
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Haymaking (1565)

Haymaking
1565
Lobkowicz Palace, Prague

Hunters in the Snow
1565
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Harvesters
1565
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Return of the Herd
1565
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565)

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap
1565
Wilton House, UK

Winter Landscape with Skaters and Bird Trap
c.1565
Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels

Massacre of the Innocents (Romania)

Massacre of the Innocents
1565–1567
Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu

Massacre of the Innocents
c.1565–1567
Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

The Census at Bethlehem (1566)

The Census at Bethlehem
1566
Musées Royaux de Belgique, Brussels

The Hare Hunters
1566
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

The Painter and the Buyer
c.1566
Albertina, Vienna

The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist
1566
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

The Wedding Dance
1566
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

The Conversion of Paul
1567
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Land of Milk and Honey
1567
Alte Pinakothek, Munich

The Beggars
1568
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Magpie on the Gallows (1568)

The Magpie on the Gallows
1568
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

The Misanthrope (1568)

The Misanthrope
1568
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli

The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind
1568
Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli

The Peasant and the Nest Robber
1568
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Peasant Dance
c.1568
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Peasant Wedding
1568
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Tower of Babel
c.1568
Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam

Massacre of the Innocents (copy)
4th quarter of the 16th century
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Massacre of the Innocents (copy)
17th century
Upton House, England

Born c.1525 Breda (Netherlands)
Died September 9 1569 Brussels (Belgium)
Son Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638)
Son Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)
Grandson Jan Brueghel the Younger (1601-1678)
Occupation Painter