River landscape with a sower
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| River landscape with a sower |
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| Pieter Bruegel the Elder , 1552/1557 |
| oil on wood |
| 70.2 x 102 cm |
| Timken Museum of Art, San Diego |
River Landscape with a Sower is a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder from 1552/1557 . The 70.2 cm × 102 cm oil painting on wood belongs to the collection of the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego as Parable of the Sower . The image is also known as the Landscape with the Parable of the Sower and Landscape with the Parable of the Sower .
description
From an elevated point of view, the viewer looks at a river landscape with farmhouses, a church, a distant castle, a town and a mountain range. At the raised dark edge of the forest in the front left, a farmer is busy sowing . Other people can also be seen: a mounted man is talking to a reaper , someone is picking fruit and a man is relieving himself . Boats are moored on the other bank of the diagonal river and a crowd gathers in front of one of them.
Interpretation and classification
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The common interpretation that the subject of the picture is Jesus' parable of the sower ( Mt 13.1 ELB ) cannot be immediately understood. The crowd on the river bank is seen as the audience of Jesus who got into a boat in order to speak to everyone. Although the crowd actually gathers in front of a boat, it is empty. It is possible that the figure of Jesus was lost in a late restoration that affected the entire background. The picture is one of Bruegel's early survey landscapes , as is the landscape with the Flight into Egypt (1563). The impression of depth is not only created by perspective, but also by color: the foreground is brownish dark, the middle ground green and the distance bluish.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timken Museum of Art - Parable of the Sower accessed April 10, 2018
- ^ Christian Vöhringer: Pieter Bruegel. 1525 / 30-1569 , Tandem Verlag (hfullmann Imprint) ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2 p. 28 ff. Chapter Early Paintings
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