Winter landscape with a snow covered tree group
Jacob van Ruisdael·1670
Historical Context
Winter Landscape with a Snow-Covered Tree Group from around 1670 at the Stadel Museum captures the austere beauty of Dutch winter. Ruisdael's winter scenes are among the most atmospheric in Dutch painting, conveying the silent quality of a snow-covered landscape. 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 e...
Technical Analysis
Snow-laden branches create sculptural forms against a pale sky. Ruisdael's restrained palette of whites and grays captures the muted quality of winter light with atmospheric precision.
