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View of the Oosterpark, Amsterdam, in the Snow
Also titled Gezicht op het Oosterpark in Amsterdam in de sneeuw
George Hendrik Breitner (Rotterdam, 1857–1923)
1892
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 70 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of R. Noortman, Maastricht
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The winter of 1892 was exceptionally severe. From the studio of his friend Witsen, Breitner could see the snow-covered Oosterpark (then under construction), located in a new district of Amsterdam. Typical tall, late 19th-century houses are visible on the horizon. Breitner, always short of money, is said to have traded this painting for a bicycle rather than sell it through the dealer to whom he was under contract.
