The Hunters in the Snow
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1565
The story
The Hunters in the Snow, also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This scene is set in the depths of winter during December/January.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Date
- 1565
- Collection
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Medium
- oil paint, panel
- Size
- 117 × 162 cm
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