Pieter Bruegel the Elder Prints
c. 1525–1569 · Flemish · Northern Renaissance
Wall art by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
37 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was born around 1525, probably in Breda, and became a free master of the Antwerp painters' guild in 1551. He trained with Pieter Coecke van Aelst, whose daughter he later married, and soon after 1551 travelled to Italy, reaching Rome and the far south before returning through the Alps, whose mountains reappear in his landscapes for the rest of his life. Back in Antwerp from 1555 he designed some forty prints for the publisher Hieronymus Cock, and in 1563 he moved to Brussels, where he died in September 1569. Only about forty paintings are accepted as his. Among them are the Netherlandish Proverbs of 1559, The Tower of Babel of 1563 and the series of the months commissioned in 1565 by the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jonghelinck, of which five survive, including The Hunters in the Snow. Bruegel painted peasants, weather and work at a time when his contemporaries painted saints and nobles, and he organised crowds of small figures across deep, panoramic space without losing the eye. That is why his pictures reward a large print: each one is a landscape to be walked into and a hundred small stories to be found.