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A Frozen Canal near the River Maas
Also titled Een bevroren vaart bij de Maas
Andreas Schelfhout (The Hague, 1787–1870)
1867
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 70 cm x width 107 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This winter landscape presents a typically Dutch river scene: a panoramic, tranquil world almost devoid of colour. The activity on the ice creates a cheerful accent. Schelfhout specialized in this genre. His frozen winter scenes, which allude to the 17th century, were extremely popular. They were even called ‘little Schelfhouts’.
