1848
oil
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Snow scene: the haunted house is a 1848 oil by Georg Emil Libert, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a frozen river with three boys playing and a big house in the background. The scene is peaceful, with the boys having fun in the snow. It's interesting that the house looks a bit scary, which adds a sense of mystery to the painting. You can see similar uses of light and dark in the technique of chiaroscuro.
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,…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Georg Emil Libert (2 August 1820 – 19 May 1908) was a Danish landscape painter. His specialties included scenes featuring Danish, German, and Norwegian landscapes.
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