Winter Landscape (January or February)
1586 | Lucas I. van Valckenborch
Collecting and carrying home brush and firewood was already a characteristic feature of winter in the Early Netherlands books of hours. Here we see this activity as part of everyday life in a Flemish village. The “impressionistic” effect of the snowflakes painted close together seems bold, and yet it had been seen before in a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. As in Bruegel’s cycle of the seasons, Winter was probably the final work in Valckenborch’s series.
Collecting and carrying home brush and firewood was already a characteristic feature of winter in the Early Netherlands books of hours. Here we see this activity as part of everyday life in a Flemish village. The “impressionistic” effect of the snowflakes painted close together seems bold, and yet it had been seen before in a work by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. As in Bruegel’s cycle of the seasons, Winter was probably the final work in Valckenborch’s series.
Artist:
Lucas I. van Valckenborch (1535 oder kurz danach in Löwen - 1597 Frankfurt am Main) DNB
Time:
1586
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
115,5 cm x 198 cm x 2,5 cm
Framed: 136 cm x 218 cm x 9,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed at lower left: LVV 1586
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 1064
Provenance
First documented in inventory G (1612/18) of the gallery (?)