# Landscape with the Parable of the Sower

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bruegel-pieter-the-elder-rad10bd5c95ce7a>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 70 x 102 cm

## Commentary

This panel is among the earliest signed paintings by Bruegel. In painting the peasant in the left-hand foreground, he was presumably thinking of the Parable of the Sower, who sows his seed on good soil and bad ground \(Matthew 13\).

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- [Adoration of the Kings in the Snow](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bruegel-pieter-the-elder-rad10bd5c95ce7a/adoration-of-the-kings-in-the-snow-rdfd5009a41815f>)
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## Attribution

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