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The Magpie on the Gallows is a 1568 oil-on-wood panel painting by Flemish renaissance artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder.The painting shows a woodland clearing containing three peasants dancing to a bagpipes next to a gallows upon which a magpie is perched. The gallows stands in the centre of the picture dividing the painting in two a Mannerist composition with the right side more open and left more closed with the magpie close to the exact centre of the painting.
