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The Harvesters

After the painting: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters, 1565

The Harvesters

A hot noon in a wheat field: harvesters rest under a tree, with a village and a bay in the distance. One of the largest charts here.

Size
200 × 147 stitches; on 14-count: 36.3 × 26.7 cm, on 18-count: 28.2 × 20.7 cm
Threads
29 DMC colours, full crosses only
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 435809 — the work on the museum site
Licence
Chart — © 2026 Crossette, CC BY 4.0: free to stitch, print and share with a link to crossette.org. The original is in the public domain (CC0); the museum image comes from its open collection.

PDF to print · 607 KB OXS for software · 1.2 MB

OXS is an open chart format that many cross stitch programs open. The Crossette app opens it too — it’s in development; the beta comes after Apple’s review. Colours on screen and in print are approximate; go by the thread codes.