It has been so cold the last couple of days that in many parts of The Netherlands people could skate again. It hasn’t been so cold however that the Merwede was frozen over as it was around 1640. Winter landscapes were a popular genre and Van Goyen returned to painting them after painting river landscapes.
On the horizon, we can see Dordrecht’s ‘Grote Kerk’ -big church – (on the right next to the windmill).
