Children's Games (Bruegel)

Children's Games
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Children’s Games
ArtistPieter Bruegel the Elder
Year1560[1]
TypeOil on panel
Dimensions118 cm × 161 cm (46 in × 63 in)
LocationKunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Children's Games is an oil-on-panel by Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1560. It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The entire composition is full of children playing a wide variety of games. Over 90 different games that were played by children at the time have been identified.[2]

  1. ^ signed at bottom right "BRVEGEL 1560"
  2. ^ Hindman, Sandra (September 1981). "Pieter Bruegel's Children's Games, Folly and Chance". Art Bulletin. 63 (3): 447–475. doi:10.2307/3050145. JSTOR 3050145.

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