Why it matters
Villagers skate on a frozen river while, on the right, birds gather around a trap. Bruegel's winter scene was copied more often than any of his other paintings: 127 copies have been documented.
Did you know?
- It is signed and dated 1565.
- Many copies were made by his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
- The bird trap was not part of the original underdrawing.
Based on the Wikipedia article Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (CC BY-SA 4.0).
