# A Village in Winter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 37 x 33 cm ## Commentary This painting is one of the more than twenty that Ruisdael painted in the years after 1656 when he moved from Haarlem to Amsterdam. The distinctive aspect of these modest-size winter scenes is the minor role played by the staffage. Skating and amusements on the ice rarely feature in his work. The figures are mostly passers-by, whose presence underscores the leaden mood on bleak, dark days and the vastness of the landscape. ## Related artworks - [A Marsh in a Forest at Dusk]() - [An Extensive Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church]() - [Bentheim Castle \(detail\)]() - [Bentheim Castle]() - [Evening Landscape: A Windmill by a Stream]() - [Glade in a Wood]() - [Grainfields]() - [Huis Kostverloren on the Amstel River]() - [Landscape with a House in the Grove]() - [Landscape with a Traveller]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem \(detail\)]() - [Landscape with a View of Haarlem]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()