The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 18, 2025

Horizontally oriented painting depicting a landscape with a sand colored turret, wall, and town on the right, a grey and blue streaked frozen river running alongside it over which people skate. Grey 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

attributed to Jan Griffier

(Dutch, 1648–1718)
Netherlands
oil on copper, mounted on wood
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.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.287
Location: Not on view

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.
  • During the most recent 2024 conservation treatment, discolored yellowed coatings and restoration paint was safely removed, allowing the artist’s original colors and tonality to become visible.
  • 2008
    Estate of Muriel Butkin
    AL Bottin.
    The Norton Galleries (New York, New York), sold to Noah L. Butkin, 1967.
    Noah L. Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), by inheritance to his wife, Muriel Butkin, 1980.
    Muriel Butkin (Shaker Heights, Ohio), upon her death, held in trust by the estate, 2008.
    Estate of Muriel Butkin
    2008-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • {{cite web|title=Winter Landscape|url=false|author=Jan Griffier|year=c. 1680–1718|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.287