Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 'The Hunters in the Snow' (1565) is one of the most celebrated winter landscapes in Western art. Part of his series of the Months, it shows a group of weary hunters returning with their dogs from an unsuccessful hunt, trudging above a frozen Alpine village where skaters pivot on green ponds. The bare-black trees and razor-sharp horizon set a panoramic 'bird's-eye' stage that Bruegel's followers would copy for generations. It is a cornerstone of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum.

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Kunsthistorisches Museum

Vienna, Austria

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