# Winter Landscape with Wooden Bridge

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## Artwork

- Artist: [WOUWERMAN, Philips](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on oak, 29 x 37 cm

## Commentary

Reveling in an expanse of sky, in the physical insignificance of Humankind, Wouwerman pays homage to the elements, to Nature&#39;s irrational, unbalanced aspects, with all of us in her thrall, never more so than in the dead of winter. Qualities of the picturesque, the irregular, decorative tricks of the eighteenth-century artist&#39;s trade, are anticipated by this scene.

## Related artworks

- [A Hawking Party](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/a-hawking-party-rc07835b24cf758>)
- [A Man and a Woman on Horseback \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/a-man-and-a-woman-on-horseback-detail-r4a78b94ca22a96>)
- [A Man and a Woman on Horseback](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/a-man-and-a-woman-on-horseback-r68b87e34534e9c>)
- [Battle on Horseback](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/battle-on-horseback-r14be28324b234d>)
- [Cavalier Holding a Dappled Grey Horse](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/cavalier-holding-a-dappled-grey-horse-red1c5c37c47f73>)
- [Cavalry Battle in front of a Burning Mill](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/cavalry-battle-in-front-of-a-burning-mill-r4bae24f27e4a2d>)
- [Cavalry Skirmish](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/cavalry-skirmish-r7e7a1f9288d4ce>)
- [Coastal Landscape with the Dropping of Goods](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/coastal-landscape-with-the-dropping-of-goods-r16e8a175b26970>)
- [Coming out of an Inn](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/coming-out-of-an-inn-r74225fc922260f>)
- [Dune Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/dune-landscape-r835766f6fd9d68>)
- [Dune Landscape with Figures](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/dune-landscape-with-figures-r207f8810ea16e1>)
- [Halt of a Hunting Party](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/wouwerman-philips-r8e198aed8a5c43/halt-of-a-hunting-party-rd5c73e2ae41b66>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)