Andreas Schelfhout (1787 –1870) - Duinlandschap in Holland
The admiration for Schelfhout's summer and winter landscapes was so great in the 1940s that critics gave him laudatory nicknames, such as 'Modern painter prince of the landscape' and 'Claude Lorrain of winter views'. The French painter Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) immersed his pastoral landscapes in moody morning light or evening twilight. The idyllic atmosphere that this created was much admired in the 19th century. However, while Lorrain's landscapes were highly idealized, Schelfhout's winter landscapes were based on reality and their success was based on their faithfulness to nature and recognizable Dutch winter atmosphere. “Only as Schelfhout depicts winter, in white robes and with the colorful crowd of water striders, do we find anything attractive in it,” wrote a critic in 1841 in De Kunstkronijk.
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The admiration for Schelfhout's summer and winter landscapes was so great in the 1940s that critics gave him laudatory nicknames, such as 'Modern painter prince of the landscape' and 'Claude Lorrain of winter views'. The French painter Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) immersed his pastoral landscapes in moody morning light or evening twilight. The idyllic atmosphere that this created was much admired in the 19th century. However, while Lorrain's landscapes were highly idealized, Schelfhout's winter landscapes were based on reality and their success was based on their faithfulness to nature and recognizable Dutch winter atmosphere. “Only as Schelfhout depicts winter, in white robes and with the colorful crowd of water striders, do we find anything attractive in it,” wrote a critic in 1841 in De Kunstkronijk.
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