Gloomy Day, 1565 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria)

It is more likely a stormy day of early spring than a day of late autumn given that a man in the foreground appears to be pruning a branch off a tree. However, the tree stumps on the ground, people gathering wood and the mountain in the background - which seems to be void of snow - could just make it for a late autumn representation. 

Whatever, the stormy seas, the dark colours used almost throughout the painting, except in the top left hand corner - where the mountains seem to be depicted in their usual Bruegel style -, and what appears to be an approaching storm anticipated by very heavy seas, makes it for a very gloomy day and hence the title.

In the foreground children bring water to workers whilst others, in the lower left hand corner, attend to their daily chores. This complex beautiful representation, part of the season's series, seems not to hinting to any morale story, just the sort of ordinary XVI century life, made of hard work and pain, which earned the master the name of "peasants painter".

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