Frederik Marinus Kruseman artwork • painting • previously for sale A winter landscape with skaters on the ice, a castle in the distance
Frederik Marinus Kruseman
Haarlem 1816-1882 Sint-Gillis (Brussel)
1816-1882
A winter landscape with skaters on the ice, a castle in the distance
oil on canvas 64.5 x 94.5 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1871
This painting was previously for sale.
Kruseman learned from B.C. Koekkoek how to compose a romantic landscape. Having been trained by N.J. Roosenboom and Jan van Ravenswaaij, Kruseman went to Kleve, Germany, in 1837 to perfect the art of painting under B.C. Koekkoek. A frozen canal with skaters, walkers on a towpath, a small picturesque castle and jagged bare trees are all recurring motifs in Kruseman’s winter scenes. He also painted dreamy summer landscapes with finely elaborated trees and populated with cattle and a few simple hunters and peasants.