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Snow scene: the haunted house
Snow scene: the haunted house is an oil painting by the Romanticist artist Georg Emil Libert. It dates from 1848 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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The composition includes trees and distant mountains in the background, set against a cool-toned palette typical of 19th-century Northern Romantic imagery.
The painting depicts a winter scene featuring a frozen river where three boys play, with two small figures standing at the river’s edge on the right, while an austere manor stands in the mid-distance. The composition includes trees and distant mountains in the background, set against a cool-toned palette typical of 19th-century Northern Romantic imagery. The manor is identified as Brundlund Slot in Aabenraa, Denmark, before its early 19th-century restoration by C.F. Hansen. Created in 1848, the work reflects the Romantic movement’s emphasis on mysterious landscapes and refined detail, influenced by artists in Munich who drew inspiration from Caspar David Friedrich.
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Georg Emil Libert (2 August 1820 – 19 May 1908) was a Danish landscape painter. His specialties included scenes featuring Danish, German, and Norwegian landscapes.
