Bruegel der Ältere, Pieter
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![The Painter and The Connoisseur, c. 1565, possibly Bruegel's self-portrait[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://zoomviewer.toolforge.org/fcgi-bin/iipsrv.fcgi/?iiif=cache%2F2829e394b39b015405e79219de8f4cee.tif/full/,340/0/native.jpg "The Painter and The Connoisseur, c. 1565, possibly Bruegel's self-portrait[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
Basic data
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Brueghel der Ältere, Pieter; Breughel der Ältere, Pieter; Bauernbruegel; de Drol Alternative Names
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between January 1, 1525 and December 31, 1530 in Breda (Belgien)
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†September 5, 1569 in Brüssel
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Maler
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Belgien
Iconography
![The Painter and The Connoisseur, c. 1565, possibly Bruegel's self-portrait[1] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Painter_and_the_Buyer,_ca._1566_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg "The Painter and The Connoisseur, c. 1565, possibly Bruegel's self-portrait[1] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish, Bruegel's drawing for a print, 1556[20] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_Big_Fish_Eat_Little_Fish,_1556_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg "The Big Fish Eat the Little Fish, Bruegel's drawing for a print, 1556[20] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg "The Hunters in the Snow, 1565, oil on wood (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Winter Landscape with (Skaters and) a Bird Trap (1565), Bruegel's most copied painting, smaller than many of his landscapes at 38 × 56 cm[53] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bruegel,_Pieter_(I)_-_Winterlandschap_met_schaatsers_en_vogelknip,_1565.jpg "Winter Landscape with (Skaters and) a Bird Trap (1565), Bruegel's most copied painting, smaller than many of his landscapes at 38 × 56 cm[53] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The Hay Harvest (1565), National Museum (Prague), Lobkowicz family collection in Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle[60] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_haymaking,_by_Pieter_Bruegel_(I).jpg "The Hay Harvest (1565), National Museum (Prague), Lobkowicz family collection in Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle[60] (Source: Wikimedia)")
.JPG "The Harvesters (1565), oil on panel, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Source: Wikimedia)")
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