Q The Hunters in the Snow was part of a cycle of six paintings by Pieter Breugel the Elder, depicting the "Labors of the Months." The Harvesters, now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York City, is another painting from this series. Does The Harvesters exhibit similar characteristics as Hunters in the Snow? Formal properties? Similarities in subject matter? Please explore this work and compare/contrast it to Hunters in the Snow in light of what you have learned in this lesson. Be very specific about how different parts of The Harvesters relate to aspects of Hunters in the Snow. Guide the reader through your description with specific, concrete language that makes explicit reference to shapes, colors, trajectories, aspects of composition, the location of elements, and anything else that is important and central to your understanding of these works. Your post should be two to three (well-developed) paragraphs long.
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