On-line gallery
- Reference number
- P01440
- Author
- Brueghel “the Elder”, Jan (Flemish), Momper, Joos de II (Flemish)
- Title
- Country Life
- Chronology
- 1620-1622
- Technique
- Support
- Measures
- 166 cm x 168 cm x 3 cm
- School
- Theme
- Shown
- No
- Entrance
- COLECCION REAL
- Procedence
- Royal Collection
A broad view of the Flemish
countryside, with diverse scenes of
peasants carrying out their
respective tasks.
This is one of the finest examples
of the collaboration between Jan
Brueghel, “the Elder,” who is
thought to have painted the
figures, and Joos de Momper, who
made the landscape. The scene is
formed by accumulating various
planes that follow each other
toward the back, in perspective.
The enormous trees in the center
split the composition in two. They
are the vertical counterpoint to
the horizontal perspective
projected into the distance. In
painting the figures, Brueghel drew
on various agricultural scenes
popularized by his father, Pieter
Brueghel “the Elder,” (Ca. 1525/30
- 1569), especially those that link
different farming activities to the
months of the year.
This painting was successively
attributed to Brueghel and Momper,
and is now considered the work of
both.
