Winter Landscape near a Town with Kolf Players and Horse-Drawn Sleighs
ca. 1650 - ca. 1655
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
77.7; 8.7; 63.2
About this artwork
Bruikleen van de gemeente Amsterdam (legaat A. van der Hoop)
Art Historical Context
Step into a frosty wonderland with *Winter Landscape near a Town with Kolf and Horse-Drawn Ss*, a gem from the Dutch Golden Age by Aert van der Neer (1603–1677). Painted around 1650–1655, this oil on canvas (63.2 × 77.7 cm) a serene snowy expanse outside a distant town. Tiny figures engage in winter joys: kolf players swinging clubs in an early form of golf, and merry groups in horse-drawn sleighs, evoking the everyday leisure of 17th-century Netherlands. Van der Neer, a master of atmospheric landscapes, specialized in evocative winter and nocturnal scenes, blending subtle tonalities of blue,...