Which work is Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s earliest signed and dated painting?

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Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows villagers dancing, drinking, and socializing outdoors near rustic buildings, with musicians playing in the foreground. — Pieter Bruegel, the Elder *Peasant Dance*, oil on wood by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, c. 1568; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s earliest signed and dated painting is Landscape with Christ and the Apostles at the Sea of Tiberias, which he produced in Rome in 1553. The holy figures within this work were likely painted by Maarten de Vos, an artist from Antwerp who was also working in Italy at the time.1