#winter
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The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565
This was one of a set marking the turns of the year — six of them, apparently, though only five made it through. They were painted for a rich merchant's house rather than a church, which was still a fairly new idea. It's said the winters around then were genuinely savage across that part of Europe, so the cold isn't invented.
Erisava: The sky's gone green and the whole thing feels genuinely cold. I'd hang it.
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Winter in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner, 1900
The Dutch painters of this moment get filed under Amsterdam Impressionism, which sounds a lot sunnier than what they actually put on canvas: sleet, back canals, half-built streets. They say the point was the city on an ordinary bad day rather than the postcard version.
Erisava: I can barely see what's going on. Is it meant to be this dark?
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Ice Skating before the St. George's Gate, Antwerp by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1558
This one's a print, not a painting — the credit line lists an engraver and a publisher too, so it sounds like a team job, not just one person's work behind it.
Erisava: Is this really skating, or is everyone just falling over?
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Harlem River Winter Scene by Ernest Lawson, 1910
They say he painted this same stretch of river over and over, in every season, because he lived close by — and that a critic once joked his paint was so thick and glittery it looked like crushed jewels.
Erisava: It's pretty, but would you actually cross a room for it?
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Paris in Winter by Pierre Dumont, 1912
I couldn't find much on him — apparently he helped start a painters' group back in Rouen, and had a rough life, in and out of hospitals. That's about all there is.
Erisava: This is the gloomiest winter I've ever seen. Winter as a mood, not a postcard.