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The Rotterdam panel carries no date; the museum places it around 1568, from its similarities with Bruegel's Magpie on the Gallows, dated 1568.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: oil on panel, circa 1568; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) was a Netherlandish painter and printmaker. He trained in Antwerp, likely under Pieter Coecke van Aelst, and travelled to Italy before settling first in Antwerp and later Brussels, working for merchant and court patrons. His crowded panoramas of peasant life, proverbs and biblical scenes set in contemporary Flemish landscape combine close observation of ordinary people with wit and, at times, dark allegory. 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