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Winter Landscape

c. 1680–1718

attributed to Jan Griffier

(Dutch, 1648–1718)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
oil on copper, mounted on wood
Measurements
Framed: 32 x 41 x 4 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 19.6 x 29 cm (7 11/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.287
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Location
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Description

A number of scholars have questioned the attribution because Griffier did not generally paint on copper and primarily painted hunting scenes. It may be based on a print, although the source has yet to be identified.
A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a landscape with a sand colored turret, wall, and town on the right, a gray and blue streaked frozen river running alongside it over which people skate. Gray clouds mostly cover the blue sky, casting the scene in shadow. Spindly, leafless trees rise along the right edge from a snow-covered landscape. The people wear rimmed hats or white hair coverings, with the occasional pop of an orange or yellow cloak.

Winter Landscape

c. 1680–1718

Jan Griffier

(Dutch, 1648–1718)
Netherlands

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