# Summer: Figures Eating during the Summer Harvest

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/summer-figures-eating-during-the-summer-harvest-r1cd472da9db0a9>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1>)
- Date: 1551-1600
- Technique: Oil on panel, 60 x 80 cm

## Commentary

Pieter Brueghel the Younger&#39;s interpretation of Summer must be considered one of his most popular and successful subjects. About twenty autograph variations on the theme are known. The composition essentially derives from the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, particularly from the &lt;a onclick=&#34;return OpenOther\(&#39;/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/07/16august.html&#39;\)&#34; href=&#34;/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/07/16august.html&#34;&gt;Corn Harvest&lt;/a&gt; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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- [A Village Street](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/a-village-street-rd13ca8f87457d6>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r142407a5d5f502>)
- [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/adoration-of-the-magi-detail-r8be82c9dd464a4>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/adoration-of-the-magi-r1cf943ce3d656a>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/adoration-of-the-magi-rbb76a4d3433392>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/adoration-of-the-magi-rccd482ccc3b2b6>)
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- [Peasant Wedding Dance](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/brueghel-pieter-the-younger-rd39c46a0d5d4e1/peasant-wedding-dance-re0fdec83681a30>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)