The Return of the Herd

The Return of the Herd

Artist	Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Year	1565
Type	Oil on wood
Dimensions	117 cm × 159 cm (46 in ×  62 1⁄2 in)
Location	Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The Return of the Herd is an oil on wood painting by Pieter Bruegel in 1565. The painting is one in a series of six works, five of which are still intact, that depict different times of the year. The painting is currently in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, located in Vienna, Austria.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Return of the Herd.

• The Return of the Herd at Kunsthistorisches Museum website (in German)

External links

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on The Return of the Herd

Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Notable paintings	The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) Children's Games (1560) Dull Gret (c.1562) The Triumph of Death (c.1562) The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) The Suicide of Saul (1562) The Tower of Babel (1563) The Adoration of the Kings (1564) The Procession to Calvary (1564) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (1565) The Gloomy Day (1565) The Harvesters (1565) The Hay Harvest (1565) The Return of the Herd (1565) The Wine of Saint Martin's Day (c.1565–68) The Hunters in the Snow (1565) The Census at Bethlehem (1566) The Wedding Dance (1566) Conversion of Paul (1567) The Land of Cockaigne (1567) The Peasant Wedding (1567) The Peasant Dance (c.1567) The Beggars (1568) The Peasant and the Nest Robber (1568) The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) The Magpie on the Gallows (1568) The Misanthrope (1568) The Storm at Sea (c.1569)
Survives in copies	Landscape with the Fall of Icarus