A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle, ca. 1615–20, Oil on wood, Overall, with added strips, 11 x 18 3/8 in. (27.9 x 46.7 cm); painted surface 10 3/4 x 18 in. (27.3 x 45.7 cm), Paintings, Christoffel van den Berghe (Dutch, Antwerp ca. 1590–1628 or later, active Middelburg), The artist’s family fled Flanders to the neighboring Dutch province of Zeeland. In Middelburg he specialized in precious flower pictures and landscapes like this one, where the decorative distribution of trees, the stage scenery of castle, farmhouse, and distant town, and the operatic ensemble of colorful characters seem more Flemish than Dutch
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Winter Landscape, Ice Skaters, Imaginary Castle, ca, 1615–20, Oil, wood, Overall, added strips, 11 x 18 3/8, 27.9 46.7 cm, painted surface 10 3/4 18, 27.3 45.7, Paintings, Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch, Antwerp ca., 1590–1628, or later, active Middelburg, artist, family, fled, Flanders, neighboring Dutch, province, Zeeland, Middelburg, specialized, precious flower, pictures, landscapes, decorative distribution, trees, stage scenery, castle, farmhouse, distant town, operatic ensemble, colorful characters, Flemish
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