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City View in the Winter
Also titled Stadsgezicht in de winter
Dirk Jan van der Laan (Zwolle, 1759–1829)
1790 - 1813
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 5.6 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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
The boy is all set for some wintry fun, holding up his skates in anticipation. The cold is so intense that the girl tucks her hands under her apron for warmth. The man in the doorway is likely a saddler, as indicated by his signboard. Another man arrives with a sleigh, carrying a harness used to attach a horse to a cart. The church steeple depicted here does not correspond to any existing steeple
