The Return of the Herd is a panel painting in oils by the Netherlandish Renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder, made in 1565. It is one in a series of six works (High Springtime is presumed lost) that depict different seasons. The painting is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria. The autumnal colors of the landscape and the bare trees connect this particular painting to October/November.

The surviving Months of the Year cycle are:

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  The Hay Harvest
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  The Harvesters
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  The Return of the Herd
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  The Hunters in the Snow
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  The Gloomy Day

• List of paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

• The Return of the Herd at Kunsthistorisches Museum website (in German)

• Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which includes material on The Return of the Herd