Winter Landscape with Houses
c. 1645–1650 · Oil on panel · Mauritshuis, The Hague
The whole painting, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Aert van der Neer (c. 1603–1677)
- Year
- c. 1645–1650
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Original size
- 25 × 36.5 cm
- Collection
- Mauritshuis, The Hague
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age
A frozen river runs straight into the distance between two villages, and on its ice people skate, walk and play kolf, a game played with curved sticks and a ball. Ships lie frozen in at the left beside a stack of timber, a dog runs along the bank, and a windmill stands on the horizon. A broad sky of brown and grey clouds, lit pink near the skyline, takes up more than half the panel. Aert van der Neer was an Amsterdam painter who specialised in winter scenes and moonlit landscapes. This is a small panel, about 25 by 36 centimetres. The Mauritshuis in The Hague catalogues it as Winter Landscape with Houses and dates it to about 1645 to 1650. The museum bought it in 1924 with support from the Rembrandt Association.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Small figures on a pale frozen river under a wide brown-grey sky tinged with pink. A good piece for a study or dining room next to Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow, in a dark wood frame that suits the warm Dutch tones.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Era
- 17th century (c. 1645–1650)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- dining room, study or library, living room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16, 36×24 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard; 36×24 as the statement piece above a sofa or headboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — black suits the deep tones of this period; dark wood warms it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from the original painting, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
