Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a renowned Dutch painter of the Renaissance era. He was known for his innovative choice of subject matter which were mostly landscapes and peasant scenes. Pieter Bruegel was instrumental in making both types of subject the focus in large paintings. Growing up at a time when religious subjects were passé, he also did not paint portraits. During his early career, he was a prolific designer of prints for the leading publisher of the time, Hieronymus Cock, and primarily focused on paintings later on in his short life. Among his sixty-one authentic paintings, only about forty survive to this day, twelve of which are in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. His best work in his own opinion, "a picture in which Truth triumphs", has also been lost.