The haymaking
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| The haymaking |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder , 1565 |
| Oil on oak |
| 114 × 158 cm |
| Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle , Prague |
The haymaking is one of six seasonal paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from 1565 . This 114 cm × 158 cm oil painting on wood depicts early summer and is located in the Lobkowiczký palác in Prague (Lobkowitz Palace in Prague Castle).
The paintings
Content and design
As in most of Bruegel's early paintings, the viewer looks at the action from a medium height - this way the overview is maintained without the details becoming blurred in the distance. The foreground is kept in dark, earthy tones, the middle ground in yellow and green tones and the distance in blue tones. The painter thus intensifies the impression of spatial depth. The foreground falls sharply , as in the seasonal picture Die Jäger im Schnee , and thus covers part of the middle distance. On the left there is a mountain monastery on a steep rock, on the right there is a village with a church and behind it a hill with a windmill . Then the landscape opens up with a view of a mountain cone and a river, and a blue, glistening summer sky with beautiful weather clouds arches over everything.
Market-goers bring goods for sale in the foreground on the right, three harvest workers are walking in the opposite direction on the left. There is an old woman, a young one and a middle-aged one - only the young woman looks at the viewer. In the front left corner a man is locking a scythe , creating a contrast to the dynamic movements in the foreground. It is therefore an important part of the composition , even when the meadows have actually already been mowed and the harvest workers are busy raking up and loading the hay wagon .
Motive and story
It is not a real area, but a Bruegelian overview landscape , which the artist developed from Joachim Patinier's world landscape . Made in 1565 by order of the Dutch art collector Niclaes Jonghelinck , The Hay Harvest, along with five other seasonal pictures , came into Habsburg possession in 1594 as a gift for Archduke Ernst (see also: The Seasonal Pictures ) . In Bruegel's time in northern Europe there were sometimes not four seasons, but six seasons according to the natural course of the year: early spring, spring, early summer, midsummer, autumn and winter.
After 1809 the picture came into the possession of Countess Leopoldine Grassalkowitsch under unexplained circumstances and from there as an inheritance to the collection of Prince Lobkowitz at Raudnitz Castle in Roudnice nad Labem (German: Raudnitz an der Elbe ). After the occupation of Prague by German troops, this collection was confiscated and the hay harvest was earmarked for a planned museum in Linz . Since the end of the war, the painting has been on loan from the Lobkowitz family in the Prague National Gallery . The present exhibition location is in Lobkowiczký palác (Lobkowitz Palace in Prague Castle).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Vöhringer - Pieter Bruegel, 1525 / 30-1569. Tandem Verlag 2007 (hfullmann imprint), p. 95f. ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2
- ↑ Christian Gräf: The Winter Pictures of Pieter Bruegel the Elder VDM Verlag Dr. Müller 2009, ISBN 978-3-639-12775-1 , p. 17
- ↑ residence.aec.at ( Memento of the original from May 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed August 24, 2012
- ↑ Lobkowicz Palace ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on October 22, 2012
- ↑ Lobkowiczký palác ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Czech) accessed on October 22, 2012
Web links
- The painting accessed on the museum's website on October 22, 2012
Old peasant woman | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, 1564) | The Adoration of the Magi (Bruegel, around 1556) | The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow | The country wedding | The peasant dance | The conversion of Paul | The Bethlehemite Child Murder | The fall of the blind | Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Galilee | Christ and the adulteress | The three soldiers | The gloomy day | The magpie on the gallows | River landscape with a sower | The yawn (?) | Great Tower of Babel | The port of Naples | The return of the flock | The haymaking | The wedding dance | The hunters in the snow | The battle between carnival and fasting | The children's games | Little Tower of Babel | The grain harvest | Christ Carrying the Cross | The cripples | Landscape with the Flight into Egypt | Landscape with the fall of Icarus (?) | Seascape with a burning city (?) | The misanthrope | The nest ejector | The Dutch proverbs | The sermon of John the Baptist | The land of milk and honey | Saul's suicide | The fall of the rebelling angels | Death of the virgin | The great Grete | The triumph of death | The Bethlehem Census | The wine for the feast of St. Martin | Winter landscape with ice skaters and bird trap | Two monkeys | Twelve Proverbs (?)
(?) Attribution controversial | Formerly attributed to Bruegel