5 winter landscapes that will remind you of how much you love this season

Yes it's freezing outside, but winter also has its special charms! Think of those clear and crispy days on which you can just taste the air in your mouth before you head on back inside to warm up with hot chocolate by the fire place. One look at these paintings will give you that same fuzzy feeling, minus the frostbite...

Louis Apol

_{Louis Apol, The Hague Forest, 1890, oil on canvas, 112 x 78 cm, available at Kunsthandel Jacques Fijnaut.}

Paul Hugo ten Hoopen

_{Paul Hugo ten Hoopen, Gent in Winter, 2005, oil on canvas, 62 x 50 cm, available at Kunsthandel Studio 2000.}

Cees Muller

_{Cees Muller, Skating on the Ice, 2000, oil on canvas, 80 x 100 cm, available at De Schildercamer.}

Janny Kuiper

_{Janny Kuiper, Winter landscape (Nieuwe Niedorp), 1961, oil on canvas, 60 x 70 cm, available at Mark Smit Kunsthandel.}

Andreas Schelfhout

_{Andreas Schelfhout, Ice scene with wood gatherers and skaters, 1800, oil on panel, 16 x 22 cm, available at Mark Smit Kunsthandel.}

Header image: Hendrick Avercamp, Fun on ice, ca. 1620, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.