Jonathan Fine, the director of the Kunsthistorisches museum, is our guide today to “Hunters in the Snow.” (The painting will be featured in a coming show at the museum in March.) In 1565 ...

Pieter Bruegel’s 1565 painting Jagers in de Sneeuw (Hunters in the Snow) is also known by the alternative title of Winter—fitting for one of the most notable winter landscapes in Western art.

There are lots of Canada geese about, in these parts at least. I suspect most are new arrivals and not the resident birds that have been here all winter. There aren’t any snow geese yet, however. It’s ...