Summer: Harvest Time

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 Corn Harvest, kept at the Metropolitan Museum, New York.