Summer Landscape with Harvesters is an oil-on-canvas painting by Flemish artists Joos de Momper and Jan Brueghel the Elder.
[1][2] After having been exposed in Toledo as an "anonymous loan," the Museum directory opted for the purchase, influenced by the reaction of the public.
On the road, a dog greets a man walking up in front of his empty wagon to the viewer, and a woman sets the basket she is carrying on the ground, to rest a while on her way home.
By using a "mutually reinforcing geometry of diagonals that intersect with three distinct color bands [yellow, green, blue]," de Momper allowed his composition to "convincingly lead the eye deep into the picture.
The two collaborated on several occasions, with de Momper always painting the landscape and Brueghel taking care of the staffage, usually the animated figures.