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painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Procession to Calvary is an oil-on-panel by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder of Christ carrying the Cross set in a large landscape, painted in It is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

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History and description

This is the second-largest known painting by Bruegel.^[2] It is one of sixteen paintings by Bruegel listed in the inventory of the wealthy Antwerp collector, Nicolaes Jonghelinck.

Jonghelinck commissioned the series of paintings of months^[3] from Bruegel and may also have commissioned this work. Jonghelinck's Bruegels passed into the possession of the city of Antwerp in the year in which the inventory was made.

In it was recorded in the Prague collections of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, then transferred to Vienna, and in (until ) in Paris, requisitioned by Napoleon Bonaparte as part of his war booty.^{[citation needed]}