Three hunters trudge home through deep snow with their dogs and a single meagre fox, backs to us, heads down. Beyond them the land drops away and opens into one of the great passages in painting: frozen ponds with skaters no bigger than commas, a bird-trap, a chimney fire being beaten out, jagged peaks that never existed in Flanders. Bruegel invents the entire modern winter landscape here — the green-grey sky, the black birds, the sense of cold as a physical weight. Painted in 1565, part of a cycle of the seasons. Nobody has improved on it in four and a half centuries.

Maker: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 to 1569)
Date: 1565
Medium of the original: Painting
Original held by: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Credit: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Public domain, verified
Catalogue number: PA-00614

As chosen: 24 x 18 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	24 x 18 in
Outside size	25.6 x 19.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
12 x 8 in	568	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
14 x 11 in	441	Excellent	Trimmed 9.4%
16 x 12 in	404	Excellent	Trimmed 5.1%
18 x 12 in	378	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
24 x 16 in	284	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
24 x 18 in	269	Excellent	Trimmed 5.1%
30 x 20 in	227	Excellent	Trimmed 6.3%
36 x 24 in	189	Good	Trimmed 6.3%
40 x 30 in	161	Good	Trimmed 5.1%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
10 x 8 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
20 x 16 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
48 x 36 in	134 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
60 x 40 in	113 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged

Scanned

2026-10-07

Master file

6,819 x 4,853 px, srgb

Tone

Darks 18, lights 228 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark

Colour

0% vivid

Sharpness

63.29

Notes