Esaias van de Velde - A winter landscape

• Title: A winter landscape
• Artist: Esaias van de Velde (c. 1587-1630)
• Date: 1623
• Medium: Oil on oak panel
• Dimensions: 26 x 30 cm

The painting “A winter landscape” captures the atmosphere of a late winter’s day in Northern Europe with its soft, muted colors, the blue, warmer sky filtering through the white, winter clouds- cold but not biting cold, melting snow, burnt grass, muddy, slippery pathway. Unlike Brugel’s incident-packed, bird’s-eye view of a winter scene, we are part of the scene by being on a level with the characters and the landscape.