Netherlandish Proverbs
Pieter Brueghel the Elder · 1559
The story
Netherlandish Proverbs is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and objects, offer literal illustrations of Dutch-language proverbs and idioms.
- Artist
- Pieter Brueghel the Elder
- Date
- 1559
- Collection
- Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
- Movement
- Northern Renaissance
- Medium
- oil paint, oak panel
- Size
- 117 × 163 cm
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