Willem SchellinksDutch, 1627–1678City Walls in Winter
May one see it?
Unknown
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
A canal running alongside a fortified city disappears into the distance, the city walls in ruins and the bridge
collapsed. In the background at right is a glowing furnace, where marble is burned to make chalk. These
motifs, often found in paintings by Dutch Italianates, have here been shifted to a cold wintery day.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- SK-A-2112
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
