TOEPUT, Lodewijk
(b. ca. 1550, Antwerpen, d. ca. 1605, Treviso)

Winter Landscape under the Sign of Aquarius and Pisces

1580-85
Fresco
Room of Landscapes, Villa Chiericati, Longa di Schiavon

This painting recalls Pieter Bruegel the Elder's famous Hunters in the Snow. In it the whiteness of the snow, the low, turbid sky, and the icy surfaces of a severe winter are offset by the colourful, minuscule figures of the skaters that lend the scene a joyful vitality.