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BRUEGHEL, Jan the Elder: Winter Landscape with Travellers

🖼 Winter Landscape with Travellers, c. 1561
Brush, pen, brown ink, wash, heightened with white on blue paper
136 × 216 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Frozen ponds and snow-blanketed villages dominate this panoramic winter scene, rendered with meticulous detail and cool palette. Bruegel captures peasant life amid harsh seasons, establishing the Northern Renaissance obsession with landscape as primary subject rather than mere backdrop.

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