
The Twelve Months: April, Sowing and Ploughing
An engraved landscape shows peasants sowing and ploughing furrowed fields in the foreground, with a river valley, town and hills receding into the distance. A timber farmhouse and tall trees frame the right side under a cloudy sky.
- Artist
- Pieter van der Borcht (I)
- Date
- 1545-1608
- Medium
- Source
- Rijksmuseum
- Size
- 4000 × 3055 px
Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1608.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam





