Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Flemish painter of peasant life and parables, c. 1525-1569

100 works held in 43 museums

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The Peasant Wedding

Oil on oak panel, 1568.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Misanthrope

Tempera on canvas, 1568.

Museo di Capodimonte · Public domain

The Tower of Babel

Oil on wood, 1568.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

The Massacre of the Innocents

Oil on panel, 1566.

Royal Collection · Public domain

The Hunters in the Snow

Oil on panel, 1565.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Oil on panel, 1565.

Courtauld Institute of Art · Public domain

Spring

Pen and ink, pencil, red chalk, 1565.

Albertina · Public domain

The Adoration of the Kings

Oil on oak panel, 1563.

National Gallery · Public domain

The Suicide of Saul

Oil on panel, 1562.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

Faith

Engraving, 1560.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

Fortitude

Engraving, 1560.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

Fortitude

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1560.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Hope

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1559.

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin · Public domain

Justice

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1559.

Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium · Public domain

Pride

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1557.

Fondation Custodia · Public domain

Luxuria

Pen and ink on paper, 1557.

Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium · Public domain

The Strife of Lent with Shrove-Tide

Oil on panel, 1555.

Statens Museum for Kunst · Public domain

Christ and Apostles at the Sea of Galilee

Oil on panel, 1553.

Private collection, New York · Public domain

The Land of Cockaigne

Oil on panel, 1550.

Bavarian State Painting Collections · Public domain

Gluttony

Engraving.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

The Peasant and the Nest Robber

Oil on panel, 1568.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

Summertime

Drawing, 1568.

Hamburger Kunsthalle · Public domain

The Three Soldiers

Oil on panel, 1568.

The Frick Collection · Public domain

The Wine of Saint Martin's Day

Tempera on canvas, 1566.

Prado Museum · Public domain

The Gloomy Day

Oil on panel, 1565.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Hay Harvest (early summer June/July)

Oil on panel, 1565.

The Lobkowicz Collections · Public domain

The Procession to Calvary

Oil on oak panel, 1564.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Tower of Babel

Oil on oak panel, 1563.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Resurrection of Christ

Drawing, 1562.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Hope

Engraving, 1560.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

The Resurrection of Christ

Engraving, 1560.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

Temperance

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1560.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Stone operation or Witch of Mallegem

Engraving, 1559.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Twelve Flemish proverbs

Oil on panel, 1558.

Museum Mayer van den Bergh · Public domain

Gluttony

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1557.

Fondation Custodia · Public domain

The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty

Oil on panel, 1557.

Private collection (Christie's sale, 2002) · Public domain

Brook with a fisherman and a watermill

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1554.

Prints Department of the Royal Library of Belgium · Public domain

Pastoral Landscape

Pen and ink on laid paper, 1552.

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design · Public domain

Landscape with Pilgrims

Pen and ink on paper, 1540.

Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp · Public domain

Lust

Engraving.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

The Magpie on the Gallows

Oil on panel, 1568.

Hessian State Museum Darmstadt · Public domain

The Beekeepers and the Birdnester

Drawing, 1568.

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin · Public domain

Conversion of Paul

Oil on panel, 1567.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Painter and The Buyer

Pen and ink, pencil, 1566.

Albertina · Public domain

The Return of the Herd

Oil on panel, 1565.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The crafty bird-catcher

Engraving, 1565.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Death of the Virgin

Oil on panel, 1564.

National Trust · Public domain

Two Chained Monkeys

Oil on oak panel, 1562.

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin · Public domain

Dull Gret

Oil on oak panel, 1561.

Museum Mayer van den Bergh · Public domain

Charity

Engraving, 1560.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

Flemish landscape with church

Pen and ink on paper, 1560.

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin · Public domain

Netherlandish Proverbs

Oil on oak panel, 1559.

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin · Public domain

Prudence

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1559.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium · Public domain

Ice Skating before the St. George's Gate, Antwerp

Engraving, 1558.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

The ass at school

Engraving, 1557.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Big Fish Eat Little Fish

Pen and ink, 1556.

Albertina · Public domain

Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples

Oil on panel, 1554.

Galleria Doria Pamphilj · Public domain

River Landscape

Pen and ink, 1552.

Department of Prints and Drawings of the Louvre · Public domain

View of Reggio Calabria on the Strait of Messina

Drawing, 1500.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Pride

Engraving.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

The Blind Leading the Blind

Tempera on canvas, 1568.

Museo di Capodimonte · Public domain

The Beggars

Oil on panel, 1568.

Department of Paintings of the Louvre · Public domain

The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist

Oil on oak panel, 1566.

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest · Public domain

The Wedding Dance

Oil on panel, 1566.

Detroit Institute of Arts · Public domain

The Harvesters

Oil on panel, 1565.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

Armed four-master putting out to sea

Engraving, 1565.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape

Oil on panel, 1563.

Museum collection Am Römerholz · Public domain

The Fall of the Rebel Angels

Oil on oak panel, 1562.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium · Public domain

The Triumph of Death

Oil on panel, 1560.

Prado Museum · Public domain

Justice

Engraving, 1560.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

Landscape with Rabbit Hunt

Pen and ink on paper, 1560.

Fondation Custodia · Public domain

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

Oil on panel, 1559.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

The Fair at Hoboken

Drawing, 1559.

Courtauld Gallery · Public domain

Parable of the Sower

Oil on panel, 1557.

Timken Museum of Art · Public domain

Sloth

Engraving, 1557.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain

Adoration of the Magi

Tempera on canvas, 1556.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium · Public domain

Peasants and Cattle near a Farmhouse

Pen and brown ink, 1553.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

Southern hilly landscape with convent buildings

Drawing, 1552.

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin · Public domain

The Last Judgment

Pen and brown ink on paper.

Albertina · Public domain

Wrath

Engraving.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

The Peasant Dance

Oil on panel, 1568.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

Head of Peasant

Oil on panel, 1568.

Alte Pinakothek · Public domain

The People's Census at Bethlehem

Oil on oak panel, 1566.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium · Public domain

The Rabbit Hunters

Etching, 1566.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap

Oil on oak panel, 1565.

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium · Public domain

The Parable of the Good Shepherd

Engraving, 1565.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Landscape with the Flight into Egypt

Oil on panel, 1563.

Antoine Seilern collection · Public domain

The Bagpipe Player

Pen and brown ink, 1562.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

Children's Games

Oil on panel, 1560.

Kunsthistorisches Museum · Public domain

Prudence

Engraving, 1560.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

Temperance

Engraving, 1560.

Musea Brugge · Public domain

Faith

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1559.

Rijksmuseum · Public domain

Charity

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1559.

Koenigs collection · Public domain

Wrath

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1557.

Gallerie degli Uffizi · Public domain

Sloth

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1557.

Albertina · Public domain

Avarice

Pen and brown ink on paper, 1556.

British Museum · Public domain

Landscape with the Penitence of Saint Jerome

Pen and brown ink, 1553.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

Mountain Landscape with a Mule Caravan

Pen and ink, 1552.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Avarice

Engraving.

National Gallery of Art · Public domain

Mountain Landscape with the Journey to Emmaus

Drawing.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen · Public domain

Works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-1569), in the public domain. The images are published online by the museums that hold the works; the museum is named beneath each work, along with its rights statement when it publishes one. Title, date and medium are taken from these museums' records.