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Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, also known as The Bird Trap, is a panel painting in oils by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1565, now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a bird trap .
A bird trap is seen to the left among other farm implements and the whole scene is overshadowed by a church to the left. Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp's earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap. Some ...
By the last quarter of the century, manuscripts of the Ghent–Bruges school often include a set, including two or three winter scenes for the coldest months, some with a snowy landscape. The snowy landscape as a genre in painting really begins in the 1560's with five paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder made between 1563 and perhaps 1567.
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A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle is an oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp. [1]As with a number of Avercamp's works, the picture is part of the Flemish tradition of painting "the harmony of human activity and the cycle of nature". [2]
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