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Winter
Jan van Goyen (Leiden, 1596–1656)
1625
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 44 cm x width 44.5 cm x depth 5.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het 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 scene accompanies a summer landscape on view elsewhere in this gallery. When Van Goyen painted the two little pictures in 1625, he rested on a long tradition. As early as the Middle Ages, artists portrayed the seasons by means of landscapes with people engaged in typical seasonal activities.
