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City Walls in Winter
Also titled Stadswal in de winter
Willem Schellinks (Amsterdam, 1627–1678)
c. 1650 - c. 1670
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 74 cm x width 105 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- H.A. Insinger-van Loon Bequest, Amsterdam
- 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
A canal running alongside a fortified city disappears into the distance, the city walls in ruins and the bridge collapsed. In the background at right is a glowing furnace, where marble is burned to make chalk. These motifs, often found in paintings by Dutch Italianates, have here been shifted to a cold wintery day.
