Some paintings are iconographically simply weird. While the epiphany, the adoration of the magi, happened in winter, it is rather unusual to see it depicted with a completely frozen port in the background. The painting almost looks as if someone has pasted two halves together, one with a wintery landscape and one with an adoration, since they shared the season or something. It lacks the integration similar works by Brueghel have, where the adoration is part of the winter scene, not next to it.
For sale at Arce lot 1418, described as Dutch School, 17th century, and measuring 100 by 145 cm, it is estimated at 1,900 Euro. I don't see a lot of Dutch influence in it, but it is so weird that anything is possible basically.
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