Why it matters
This panel represents June and July in a series of six by Bruegel, each presumed to show two months of the year. It hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink.
Did you know?
- It was painted in 1565.
- It is the most important of the Lobkowicz family's Northern pictures.
- In 1594 the city of Antwerp gave all six panels to Archduke Ernst.
Based on the Wikipedia article The Hay Harvest (CC BY-SA 4.0).
