The Rabbit Hunters
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · 1560 · etching on laid paper
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About this picture
The Rabbit Hunters is a public-domain illustration by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, dated 1560. Etching on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“The Rabbit Hunters” (1560) is a wide scene crowded with small incidents — peasants, a proverb, or a landscape — the sort of design Bruegel also spread through prints.
About the artist
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (about 1525–1569) was a Netherlandish painter of peasants, proverbs, and wide landscapes crowded with small incidents. The print versions spread those compositions widely.
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