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Winter
Also titled De winter
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam, 1695–1754)
1740
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- grisaille
- Dimensions
- depth 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- M.C.C. Reynvaan Bequest, Elspeet
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Jacob de Wit painted this overdoor, an allegory of Winter, for the house of Cornelis Hop, who later became burgomaster of Amsterdam. Summer and Autumn are also on view in this room. With smoothly executed scenes in white and grey paint (grisailles), De Wit emulated stucco or marble reliefs, thereby imitating sculpture. In Dutch these kinds of paintings were called ‘witjes’, a play on the artist’s surname, Wit (Dutch: ‘white’).
