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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: River Landscape

🖼 River Landscape, 1602-03
Oil on copper
18 × 23 cm

Winding river cuts through verdant valleys where tiny figures labor across meticulously rendered fields, rendered in Brueghel's characteristic bird's-eye perspective. The composition celebrates Flemish rural life with scientific precision, establishing landscape as a subject worthy of grand artistic attention rather than mere backdrop.

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