Contact gallery for price		Louis Apol (a.k.a Lodewyk-Franciscus-Hendrik Apol) b. La Haye, 1850 Carriage Approaching in a Winter Landscape Oil on panel 9 1/16 x 13 inches (22.9 x 33 cm) framed: 14 1/4 x 18 inches signed lower left: Louis Apol H. Louis Apol was amongst the premier Dutch landscapists of the 19th-century.  He studied with J. Hoppenbrouwer and Pierre Stortenbeker.  Apol focused his creative energy on the painting of winter landscapes and it is for these that he is most widely known. In our painting, Apol takes up his favored subject of a snowy landscape.  At center of the composition is a quiet road, lined with tall, bare trees.  A covered carriage drawn by a white horse approaches at a slow walk toward the viewer.  Beyond the road lie flat, rural fields dotted with trees and a single house at the right of the composition.  The entire scene is painted in muted, harmonious color that augments the calm, quiet aura of the image.  Snow and clouds are painted in tones of white, pale blue, yellow, lavender, silver, and pink.  Trees and shrubbery in tones of olive, brown, beige, gray, and gold break the pale, snowy fields.  A fine impasto and brushy technique enhances the texture of the dry, dead grasses and branches, revealing patches of light snow upon layers of ice and water.  It is this adeptness at painting precisely these types of landscape views that made Apol sought after in both his own country and internationally. Apols’s works are kept in the National Museum of Art in Bucarest, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, the Musée Communal de La Haye, the Boymans Museum in Rotterdam, as well as museums in Amsterdam, Montreal, and Munich.