Why it matters
Peasants cut wheat, eat, rest and play under a pear tree in late summer, while a landscape opens up to ships far away. The Metropolitan Museum calls it a 'watershed in the history of Western art' and the 'first modern landscape'.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1565 as part of a cycle of six works on the times of the year.
- The Antwerp banker Nicolaes Jonghelinck commissioned the cycle.
- Three of the surviving paintings are in Vienna and one in Prague.
- It has been at the Met since 1919.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Harvesters (painting) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
