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Pieter Aertsen

 

 

Aertsen (Aartsen, Aertszen, Aertsz) Pieter (Pier Lange) (1507/8—75).

Dutch painter, working in Antwerp and Amsterdam, whose detailed and colourful genre and still-life paintings were highly popular and also stylistically influential on the 17th-C. Netherlands genre school. Many of his religious paintings have been destroyed.
 

 

 


Peasants by the Hearth
1560s

 


Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi (central panel)
c. 1560

 


Left wing of a Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi
c. 1560

 


Left wing of a Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi (reverse side)
c. 1560

 


Peasant's Feast

 


Anbetung der Hirten, Detail

 


Butcher's Stall
1551

 


Pareja de aldeanos en el mercado

 


Christ with Maria and Martha
 


The Three Hebrews in the Fiery Furnace