Winter Landscape
Jacob van Ruisdael·1670
Historical Context
Winter Landscape from around 1670 at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen captures the characteristic Dutch winter with its frozen waterways and bare trees. Ruisdael's winter paintings are among the most atmospheric in European landscape art. Ruisdael's winter scenes use a restrained palette of grey, white, and ochre applied with careful wet-on-wet glazing to capture diffuse winter light. Frozen canals doubled as roads in seventeenth-century Holland, making these scenes economically as well as a...
Technical Analysis
The frozen landscape is rendered in Ruisdael's restrained winter palette of grays and whites. The bare trees and frozen water create a scene of austere seasonal beauty.
