Winter in Art

A little review of winter scenes in art history.

Winter Landscape, Denis van Alsloot, 1610

Graveyard under Snow, Caspar David Friedrich, 1826

Johan Christian Dahl, Megalith Grave in Winter, 1824-25

Mountain Gorge in Winter (Gebirgsschlucht im Winter), Carl Blechen, 1825

Charles Bridge in Winter, Tavík František Šimon (1877 – 1942)

Dutch winter landscape with skaters and a horse-sledge – Andreas Schelfhout (Dutch, 1787-1870), 1857

The Icebergs by Frederic Edwin Church demonstrates the aesthetic of the sublime, 1861

Cliffs by the Sea in the Snow, Gustave Courbet, 1870

St. Petersburg, The Ferry Across the River – Ivan Aivazovsky, 1870

Gustave Caillebotte, Snowy roofs, 1870s

James M. Nairn, Winter morning, Wellington Harbour, 1900

Budapest, Hungary, 1907

Joseph Farquharson (1846-1935), The Shortening Winter’s Day is near a Close, 1903