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Description: | Signed: yes Description: In the competitive Dutch art market, artists often specialised in a particular genre so as to assure themselves of ready buyers. Klaes Molenaer devoted much of his career to winter scenes, of which this is a fine example. His concern for mood rather than naturalism is apparent in the inclusion of a hilltop ruin and a bare pine tree: pine trees do not lose their leaves, but a bare pine creates a sense of desolation suitable to this wintry view. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (horse; dog); buildings and gardens (cottage; ruin) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Molenaer, Klaes (Dutch painter, active before 1630-1676) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8621... | Go to resource |
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