# Summer: Harvest Time [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BRUEGHEL, Pieter the Younger]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on panel, 52 x 72 cm ## Commentary This successful portrayal of harvesting under a dazzling sun, powerfully reveals all the complementarity that existed between the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder and that of his son, Pieter Brueghel the Younger. The genius of the father's forms and composition is enriched by the son's inventiveness and his joyful lines and colours. In the foreground on the right, a few peasants have stopped to eat. The construction of this midday meal is partly similar to that of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's large painting of the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/07/16august.html'\)" href="/html/b/bruegel/pieter\_e/07/16august.html">Corn Harvest,</a> kept at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. ## Related artworks - [A Village Street]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi \(detail\)]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Battle of Carnival and Lent]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Massacre of the Innocents]() - [Peasant Wedding Dance]() - [Peasant Wedding Dance]() - [Peasants Greeting One Another]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()