Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Fight Between Carnival and Lent

US$ 720.00

A fat man astride a beer barrel jousts with a gaunt figure on a church trolley, and around them a whole Flemish town splits between the tavern on the left and the church on the right. Bruegel packs in over two hundred figures — games, beggars, waffles, a dice game, a funeral — so that the picture works as an argument and as an inventory of daily life.

Free worldwide shipping · Secure payment via PayPal · Certificate of authenticity

Category:

Artist

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525-1569) turned Netherlandish painting away from courtly subjects toward peasants, proverbs and panoramic landscapes seen from a high vantage point. His crowds reward long looking: dozens of small incidents, each self-contained, adding up to a picture of how a whole society behaves. Both his sons became painters and copied him extensively.

Material Archival canvas
Frame Supplied rolled, unframed
Print Fine-art print, printed to order
Size 54 × 39 inches
Delivery 2–3 weeks
Certificate of Authenticity Included, emailed on delivery
Shopping Cart