The Adoration of the Kings | |
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Artist | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
Year | 1564, signed and dated at bottom right "BRVEGEL M.D.LXIIII" |
Type | Oil on oak panel |
Dimensions | 112.1 cm × 83.9 cm (44.1 in × 33.0 in) |
Location | National Gallery, London |
The Adoration of the Kings is an oil-on-panel painting of the Adoration of the Magi by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1564, and now in the National Gallery, London.
It is one of very few paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the portrait format, rather than his usual landscape format. Two other paintings of the Adoration by Brueghel survive: an earlier The Adoration of the Kings in tempera on canvas, dated to c.1556 (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels); and another oil on panel painting, Adoration of the Magi in a Winter Landscape, dated to 1563 or 1567 (Oskar Reinhart Collection 'Am Römerholz', Winterthur).