\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 This work is an example of a type of landscape painting, with snow-clad trees and frozen rivers, that originated in the work
s of the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel and was much appreciated in the Netherlands. Like many small-scale paintings of the Dutch landscape, van der NeerÆs pictures were not executed to order, but produced for sale on the art market.