Winter Landscape

Name/Title

Winter Landscape

Entry/Object ID

57.24

Artwork Details

Medium

Oil on Canvas

Context

Credit Line: Gift of the Luntz Family

Made/Created

Artist

Frederik Marianus Kruseman, Sr.

Date made

1871

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Frame Size

Height

47-1/2 in

Width

35-1/2 in

Dimension Description

Image Size

Height

26-1/2 in

Width

38-1/2 in

Interpretative Labels

Label

Kruseman was an artist of Romanticism, focusing on the feeling of a work, conveying emotion and passion. Romanticists used a palette of earth tones and neutrals to depict the sublime power of the natural world. Kruseman’s favorite landscapes were winter scenes, as seen here. He captured the beauty and power of nature by depicting tiny human gures amongst the great expanse of a landscape. Each small group of gures in the work tells a story of its own in neutral colors against the soft pink sky, though the landscape commands the attention in all its glory.