Pieter Bruegel The Elder

About Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a Netherlandish painter and printmaker, the founder of a family that painted for three generations. He travelled to Italy as a young man and came back with the Alps in his memory. That is why his landscapes have such depth. He painted peasants at work and at play, biblical stories set in Flemish villages, and moral subjects with a cold edge. Hunters in the Snow belongs to a cycle of the seasons made in 1565.

The Pieter Bruegel Collection at BestOfBharat

The range covers the best-known paintings. Hunters in the Snow, Netherlandish Proverbs and The Fight Between Carnival and Lent are here. So are The Triumph of Death and the landscape with the fall of Icarus. Colours are earthy: browns, olive greens, winter greys and white. Detail is the point. Each print holds dozens of small scenes, so the picture keeps giving up new incidents long after it is hung.

Pieter Bruegel in Your Space

These are pictures to live with rather than glance at, so hang them where people sit. A large Netherlandish Proverbs over a dining table starts conversations. Hunters in the Snow suits a cool north-facing room, where the grey-green palette feels right. The earthy colours work against cream, clay and warm white walls, and they take a dark wood frame well. Give the bigger prints space on either side so the eye can wander.

Every artwork here is an archival print, hand-framed to order and delivered ready to hang — made in India.