# Winter Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [AVERCAMP, Hendrick]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 24 x 31 cm ## Commentary This panel depicts a winter scene with a windmill and figures on a frozen river. Inspired by the paintings of his great predecessor, Pieter Breugel the Elder and his Flemish followers, Avercamp chose the winter landscape as his primary subject matter and turned it into a uniquely Dutch genre. ## Related artworks - [A Panoramic Winter Landscape]() - [A Scene on the Ice near a Town]() - [A Scene on the Ice]() - [Fishermen by Moonlight]() - [Frozen River with Skaters]() - [Ice Landscape]() - [Ice Scene]() - [Ice Scene]() - [River Landscape]() - [Skaters]() - [Winter Landscape \(detail\)]() - [Winter Landscape]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()