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The Census at Bethlehem
Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Flemish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, painted in 1566.
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It is signed and measures about 1155 × 1645 mm. It is now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels, which acquired it in 1902.
The painting comes from a brief period when Bruegel painted five snowy landscapes (see gallery below), thereby establishing a genre of winter landscapes in Western art.[2] These are firstly the Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, now redated to 1563, becoming the earliest of the group.
Unlike the others, this shows snow falling. The year of the Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, 1565, also produced The Hunters in the Snow, the most famous of the group, part of a series showing the months or seasons.
The date of the Massacre of the Innocents is less certain, placed between 1565 and 1567, and the Th