The Magpie on the Gallows
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1568
The story
The Magpie on the Gallows is a 1568 oil-on-wood panel painting by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It is now in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, in Darmstadt.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Date
- 1568
- Collection
- Hessian State Museum, Darmstadt, Germany
- Medium
- oil paint, panel
- Size
- 45.9 × 50.8 cm
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