Arranging the Picture

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Harvesters

1565

Oil on oak, 119 × 162 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

A stooping reaper, the Met's catalogue notes, forms a triangle that echoes the wheat she is cutting.

• Look for the same triangle in the sheaves standing in the field.
• The view itself is built: Flanders is flat, so "this is not a real landscape," says the Met's Adam Eaker.

Concepts

• Armatures

Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Public Domain (Met Open Access)