Frozen River with a Footbridge

This page presents "Frozen River with a Footbridge", created by Aert van der Neer. It is listed in the Landscape collection. The image is in landscape orientation. Landscape, a short history: The invention of paint in tubes in the 1840s made it easier to work outdoors, and landscape became a main subject of Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism. Landscape became an independent genre in European painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, while in East Asia it had long been central to ink painting.

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Dutch, 1603–1677

If you like the visual language of Aert van der Neer, explore more works by the same artist in our collection.