![]() ![]() Opposite them, a man sleeps in a position of complete abandon, a pose that is repeated in Bruegel's painting Land of Cockaigne (Alte Pinakothek, Munich). The peasants picnicking in the foreground-the off-center focus of the painting-have used stacks of grain as benches and are consuming bread and bowls of milk in addition to pears from the tree. The scene continues to unfold in the distance, where there is a valley animated with scenes of village life, another immense wheat field, and a bay with the traffic of several ships. Behind them and to their left we see that work continues: a couple gathers wheat into bundles and ties them three men cut the stalks with scythes as women make their way through a corridor in the field, carrying stacks of grain over their shoulders. ![]() A ripe field of wheat has been partially cut and stacked, while in the foreground a group of peasants, pausing in their work, picnics in the relative shade of a pear tree. ![]()
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