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A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle

ca. 1615–20
Not on view

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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle
  • Artist: Christoffel van den Berghe (Dutch, Antwerp ca. 1590–1628 or later, active Middelburg)
  • Date: ca. 1615–20
  • Medium: Oil on wood
  • Dimensions: 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)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.331.1
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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