List of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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The following is a list of paintings by the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter and printmaker Pieter Bruegel the Elder. These Catalog Numbers correspond to the numbering in Roger Hendrik Marijnissen's book, "Bruegel", with photographs by the Swiss art historian, Max Seidel (New York: Harrison House, 1984).

Image Title Year Technique Dimensions (cm) Gallery Catalog number
Seascape with Ships and a Burning City (disputed attribution) 1553 Oil on panel 22.4 × 34.8 Private collection, Switzerland MS 1
Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias 1553 Oil on panel 67 x 100 Private collection, New York MS 2
The Adoration of the Kings 15661556 Tempera on canvas 124 × 169 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium MS 4
Parable of the Sower 1557 Oil on panel 73.7 × 102.9 Timken Museum of Art MS 5
Twelve Proverbs 1558 Oil on panel 75 × 98 Museum Mayer van den Bergh
Netherlandish Proverbs 1559 Oil on panel 117 × 163 Berlin State Museums MS 6
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent 1559 Oil on panel 118 × 164 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 7
Children's Games 1560 Oil on panel 118 × 161 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 8
Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples c. 1560 Oil on panel 42.2 × 71.2 Doria Pamphilj Gallery MS 9
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (copy) 1560s Oil on canvas 73.5 × 112 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium MS 3
The Suicide of Saul 1562 Oil on panel 33.5 × 55 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 10
The Fall of the Rebel Angels 1562 Oil on panel 117 × 162 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium MS 12
Mad Meg (Dulle Griet) 1562 Oil on panel 117.4 × 162 Museum Mayer van den Bergh MS 13
The Triumph of Death с. 1562 Oil on panel 117 × 162 Prado MS 14
Two Monkeys 1562 Oil on panel 20 × 23 Berlin State Museums MS 15
The Tower of Babel 1563 Oil on panel 114 × 155 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 16
The Tower of Babel 1563–1565 Oil on panel 59.9 × 74.6 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen MS 17
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt 1563 Oil on panel 37.1 × 55.6 Courtauld Institute Galleries MS 18
Portrait of an Old Woman 1563 Oil on panel 22 × 18 Alte Pinakothek MS 38
Yawning Man (disputed attribution) c. 1563 Oil on panel 12.6 x 9.2 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Adoration of the Kings 1564 Oil on panel 111.1 × 83.2 The National Gallery, London MS 19
The Procession to Calvary 1564 Oil on panel 124 × 170 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 20
Death of the Virgin 1564 Oil on panel 36 × 55 Upton House MS 21
Haymaking 1565 Oil on panel 117 × 161 Lobkowicz Palace at the Prague Castle Complex MS 22
The Harvesters 1565 Oil on panel 116.5 × 159.5 Metropolitan Museum of Art MS 23
The Return of the Herd 1565 Oil on panel 117 × 159 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 24
The Hunters in the Snow 1565 Oil on panel 117 × 162 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 25
The Gloomy Day 1565 Oil on panel 118 × 163 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 26
Massacre of the Innocents 1565–1567 Oil on panel 109.2 × 158.1 Royal Collection
and at Upton House, Warwickshire
MS 27
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap 1565 Oil on panel 37 × 55.5 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, and many copies; it is Bruegel's most copied work MS 28
Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery c. 1565 Oil on panel 24 × 34 Courtauld Institute Galleries MS 29
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day 1565–1568 Tempera on canvas 148 × 270.5 Prado
The Wine of Saint Martin's Day (copy) 1565–1568 Oil on canvas 147 × 269.5 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The Census at Bethlehem 1566 Oil on panel 115.5 × 163.5 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium MS 30
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist 1566 Oil on panel 95 × 160.5 Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) MS 31
The Wedding Dance c. 1566 Oil on panel 119.4 × 157.5 Detroit Institute of Arts MS 32
The Land of Cockaigne 1566 Oil on panel 52 × 78 Alte Pinakothek MS 37
Adoration of the Kings in the Snow 1567 Tempera on panel 35 × 55 Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz', Winterthur MS 33
Conversion of Paul 1567 Oil on panel 108 × 156 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 34
The Peasant Wedding 1568 Oil on panel 114 × 164 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 35
The Peasant Dance 1568 Oil on panel 114 × 164 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 36
The Peasant and the Nest Robber 1568 Oil on panel 59.3 × 68.3 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 39
The Misanthrope 1568 Tempera on canvas 86 × 85 Museo di Capodimonte MS 40
The Beggars 1568 Oil on panel 18.5 × 21.5 Louvre MS 41
Parable of the Blind 1568 Tempera on canvas 85.5 × 154 Museo di Capodimonte MS 42
The Magpie on the Gallows 1568 Oil on panel 45.9 × 50.8 Hessisches Landesmuseum MS 43
The Three Soldiers 1568 Oil on panel 20.3 × 17.8 The Frick Collection
The Drunkard pushed into the Pigsty 1568 Oil on panel 18 cm. diam. Private Collection (Sold at Christies in 2002)
The Storm at Sea (disputed attribution) 1569 Oil on panel 70.3 × 97 Kunsthistorisches Museum MS 44

Sources[edit]

  • Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen. Bruegel. Taschen. 1999. ISBN 978-0681406018