Winter Landscape
Molenaerâs charming landscape illustrates the direct responses to the locality that set Haarlemâs artists apart from their Utrecht counterparts, whose landscapes favoured the fashionable Italianate manner. To judge by the large numbers that survive, winter scenes of this type must have been extremely popular. No particular town is described and Molenaer generalised all his skies, repeating the same elements from picture to picture. Each little figure, however, is invested with a particular and unique character that conveys a struggle through the icy weather.
