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Winter Landscape
Also titled Winterlandschap
Jacob Isaacksz van Ruisdael (Haarlem, ca. –1682)
c. 1665
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 42 cm x width 49.7 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- 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
Ruisdael painted around 25 winter landscapes. This scene is dominated by ominous dark clouds, and lit from the left by low, raking sunlight. The warmly dressed figures on the ice seem insignificant in the face of this inclement weather. A cheerful crowd of ice skaters would have been out of place in such a wintery landscape by Ruisdael.
