#everdingen

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Cesar Boetius van Everdingen. A Young Woman Warming Her Hands over a Brazier: Allegory of Winter. 1644-1648. Oil on canvas. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

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Village Life :: Culemborg

Village Life :: Culemborg

It’s Tuesday. My eldest is at school. Rosie, my three-year-old and I potter around the house. Cooking dinner. Washing up. Washing sheets. Well, I do that. She does her own thing. We wander up to the village park in Everdingen. The streets are quiet and safe.

Around 11am, I pop Rosie on the back seat of the bike, and ride along the dyke to Culemborg. On one side, the dyke drops away to the Lek…

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Winter school days

This morning, we got up in the dark, and scraped ice off the car to take my daughter to school. As we drove, the sky broke into whispers of colour. The colour intensified as the mist cleared. Snow caked the pathway to school, and the fields surrounding the school village. The canals had iced over. We went for a crunchy walk with my youngest, and then warmed up in a gezellig cafe.

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Circle of Cesar Boetius van Everdingen, or Cesar Pietersz (Dutch, 1616/17-1678), A Young man in a Grotto, Sotheby's

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Bacchus

[mesbeauxarts-blog]

Caesar Boetius van Everdingen. Count Willem II of Holland Granting Privileges. 1655.

Oil on canvas.

Gemeenlandshuis. Leiden, Netherlands.

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Caesar Boetius van Everdingen. Four Muses and Pegasus on Parnassus. ca. 1650.

Oil on canvas.

Huis ten Bosch. The Hague, Netherlands.

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Caesar Boetius van Everdingen. Trompe l'oeil with a bust of Venus. 1665.

Oil on canvas.

The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis. The Hague, Netherlands..