ID: 700000317 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000317	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Harvesters (oil painting (visual work); Pieter Breugel I (Flemish, ca. 1525-1569); 1565; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 19.164)

Note: This panel belongs to a series, commissioned by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelinck for his suburban home. The cycle originally included six paintings showing the times of the year. Apart from The Harvesters, which is usually identified as representing July–August, or late summer, four other paintings of the group have survived (now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and Lobkowicz Collection, Prague). Bruegel’s series is a watershed in the history of western art. The religious pretext for landscape painting has been suppressed in favor of a new humanism, and the unidealized description of the local scene is based on natural observations.

Titles:

The Harvesters (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

oil painting (visual work) [300033799] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

European art

Creation Date: 1565

Creator Display:

Pieter Breugel I (Flemish, ca. 1525-1569) [preferred,VP]

artist Brueghel, Pieter the Elder (Flemish painter, ca. 1525-1569) [500013247]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 19.164

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1919

Display Materials: oil on wood

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	wood (plant material) [300011914]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)

Dimensions: 119 x 162 cm (46 7/8 x 63 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

European (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Flemish (culture or style) [300111184] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, European regions)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

genre

Specific Subjects:

	harvesters (people in agriculture) [300417517]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>) (AAT)

	harvesting [300417516]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, agricultural functions) (AAT)

	farming (activity or system) [300192802]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, agricultural functions) (AAT)

	farmer (people in agriculture) [300025607]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>) (AAT)

Provenance: Niclaes Jongelinck, Antwerp (by 1566); [Hane von Wijke, Antwerp, until 1594; sold for fl 1,400 to Antwerp City Council as a gift for Archduke Ernst]; Archduke Ernst, governor of the Netherlands, Brussels (1594–d. 1595; inv., 1595, nos. 7–12, listed as "Sechs Taffell, von 12 Monathenn des Jars von Bruegel"); Emperor Rudolph II, Prague (until d. 1612); Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, governor of the Netherlands, Brussels and Vienna (until d. 1662; inv., 1659, nos. 582–86, "Fünff grosse Stuckh einer Grossen, warin die Zeithen desz Jahrs von Öhlfarb auf Holcz . . . Original vom alten Brögel"); Emperor Leopold I, Vienna (1662–d. 1705); Imperial collection, Vienna (until 1809); comte Antoine-François Andréossy, Vienna and Paris (1809–16; his sale, Pérignon, Paris, March 11, 1816, no. 1, as "Par un maître de l'ancienne École allemande . . . Un paysage du plus grand détail, offrant les travaux de la moisson . . . L. 58 p[ouces]., h. 44 p[ouces]. . . . Avec la date de 1546," for Fr 90.11); Jacques Doucet, Paris (until shortly before 1912; sold to Cels); Paul Jean Cels, Brussels (until 1919; sold to MMA)

Inscriptions: Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): BRVEGEL / [MD]LXV [now largely illegible]

Related Works:

	member of same series .... Heimkehr der Herde (Herbst) [700009380]
	..........painting (visual work); Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. (um 1525/30 Breda ? - 1569 Brüssel); 1565 datiert; Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Vienna state, Austria); Gemäldegalerie, 1018;

	member of same series .... Düsterer Tag (Vorfrühling) [700009381]
	..........painting (visual work); Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. (um 1525/30 Breda ? - 1569 Brüssel); 1565 datiert; Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Vienna state, Austria); Gemäldegalerie, 1837;

	member of same series .... Jäger im Schnee (Winter) [700009382]
	..........painting (visual work); Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. (um 1525/30 Breda ? - 1569 Brüssel); 1565 datiert; Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Vienna state, Austria); Gemäldegalerie, 1838;

	member of same series .... Haymaking [700009383]
	..........painting (visual work); Pieter Bruegel the Elder; 1565; The Lobkowicz Collections ; unavailable

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
The Harvesters	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 30 April 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 16 March 2018, https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435809