Enjoy the museum in its festive finery and take a closer look at a painting celebrating the season.

Step into a wintry Dutch landscape and feel the chill of Aert van der Neer’s snow-flecked scene, where bundled figures brave the ice beneath a pale sky. With Christmas drawing near, marvel at Peter Paul Rubens’s Adoration of the Magi, an oil sketch alive with movement, gesture and wonder, made in preparation for a grand altarpiece in Cambridge. Then turn to Isack van Ostade’s bustling winter view, rich with texture from the wool-white ground to the woven basket atop a sledge, and uncover its special place in the Wallace Collection’s story.