The Beggars, 1568 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Canvas Print - 6473-BEP

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Original Size: 18.5 × 21.5 cm

The Beggars by Bruegel the Elder (1568) is reproduced as a museum-quality giclée canvas print. Printed with archival inks on 400 g/m² canvas and hand-varnished for UV protection, it can be made in any size up to 18.6 × 21.7 in, scaled proportionally, with optional framing. Free worldwide shipping available; unframed prints ship in 2 workdays, framed in 7 to 8. Guaranteed 100-year color durability.

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The size you set is the printed image, the part you see once the canvas is stretched. Beyond that size we add 1.2 in of blank canvas on every side, at no extra cost, so the stretcher bars have something to grip. A 7.3 × 8.5 in print therefore arrives as 9.6 × 10.8 in. Both numbers are shown in Your Selection above and change with the slider.

Yes. The slider covers every size up to 18.6 × 21.7 in, always in the proportions of the original. If you need something larger, or a size that has to fit a frame you already own, write to us with the title and the dimensions and we will tell you what is possible. Every print is made to order, so there is usually a way.

Because the original is an oil painting on canvas. We match the print medium to the original: oil paintings go on canvas, works on paper go on fine art paper. Our canvas is natural cotton, 400 g/m² Canvas, acid-free and pH neutral, and its woven texture gives the most natural impression of Bruegel the Elder's original oil painting. The finish is satin/gloss, which keeps the depth of the dark tones the way varnish does on a painting in a museum; a matte canvas looks dull and pale next to it. More about our print media.

Start with the original, which measures 18.5 × 21.5 cm. A print at or near that size reads the way the artist judged it. Printing smaller is easy; enlarging a small original changes its character. For the wall, above a sofa or a sideboard aim for two thirds to three quarters of the furniture width, and hang the center at eye level. Cut paper to size and tape it to the wall before you order. The original hangs in Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Full size guide.
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About the Painting

There are five of them in this little picture - five cripples, strangely dressed, with grotesque hats. At the bottom right, a figure walks away carrying an object resembling a sea snail shell. And the cripples are each heading in a different direction on their short wooden prostheses.

The plot of the work, one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's last, remains a mystery. Perhaps the painter wanted to represent the five layers of society: the king with his cardboard crown, the soldier with his paper helmet, the bourgeois with his beret, the peasant with his hat, and the clergyman with his paper mitre.

Even in this small work Bruegel emerges as an artist of the life of the Flemish peasants whom he so often depicts with their festivities, dances, and traditions. He was also able to paint nature - the Flemish lowlands and its lakes. The series The Months, commissioned by a wealthy financier from Antwerp, proves it. In the five paintings (known today from this series), the life of the peasants unfolds to the rhythm of the seasons and reveals a soulful, living world.

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