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Description: | This thinly painted winter landscape with a centrally receding frozen river, a bridge in the middle-ground, and repoussoir trees and buildings on either side has been tentatively attributed to Antoni van Stralen, a minor painter. Figures from all walks of life are skating, golfing and looking on. Two smartly dressed couples gather in the central foreground. Two men in simple clothes stand on the right riverbank; one is pointing to the fashionable group. Such winter scenes were popular in seventeenth-century Netherlands. The composition harks back to the tradition of Hendrick Avercamp and Adriaen van de Venne. | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Stralen, Antoni van (Dutch painter, ca.1594-1641) Æ Attributed to circle of Previously attributed to circle of Velde, Esaias van de, I (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1587-1630) Previously attributed to Dutch School | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8562... | Go to resource |
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