Winter landscape, Nicolaes Molenaer (Haarlem ca. 1630 – 1676) attributable

Nicolaes (or Claes) Molenaer (Haarlem 1630 ca – 1676) attributable

Winter landscape with village, frozen river and wayfarers

oil on canvas (63 x 77 cm. – framed 82 x 95 cm.)

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The painting depicts a winter landscape, with a typical house of the seventeenth-century Dutch countryside, overlooking the banks of a partly frozen river and animated by the many characters who perpetuate their daily activities.

By looking closely at the details we can discover a series of 'tales within a tale', where various figures animate the scene showing a cross-section of popular life: this is how we see a couple of travellers, the man tries to warm his hands by bringing them to his mouth, a mother is waiting on the doorstep for her husband with his little son returning from work, another group of figures with skates on their feet moves on the frozen body of water, a typical winter activity as well as a means of transport.

In the wake of Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who introduced this genre in the third quarter of the 16th century, winter settings like ours reached their peak in the Dutch Golden Age, a real pictorial genre that was very attractive and sought after by collectors of art of the time, as well as after almost four centuries, also by modern-day Flemish painting lovers.

From a stylistic point of view, the work can be attributed to the Flemish Nicolas 'Claes' Molenaer (Haarlem ca. 1630 – 1676), given the perfect stylistic and compositional consonance of the time with his creations, based on an evocative landscape, with foreshortenings woodlands, forests and valleys, paths, water channels with villages, animated by lively figures inserted into episodes of daily life and drawn with a quick and fluid touch.

The painting is in excellent conservation conditions.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The painting is completed by a pleasant gilded wooden frame and is sold complete with a certificate of authenticity and descriptive iconographic card.

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