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Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters; Winter Landscape with Iceskaters

Creator Name

Hendrick Avercamp;
Hendrick Avercamp

Cultural Context

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Date

c. 1608, ca. 1608

About the Work

Rijksmuseum Object Description
The high vantage point of this painting turns it into a sampler of human – and animal – activity during a harsh winter. Hundreds of people are out on the ice, most of them for pleasure, others working out of dire necessity. Avercamp did not shy away from grim details: in the left foreground crows and a dog feast on the carcass of a horse that has frozen to death.

Door het hoge standpunt is het schilderij een staalkaart van menselijke – en dierlijke – activiteiten tijdens een strenge winter. Honderden mensen zijn op het ijs te vinden; de meeste voor het vermaak, andere zijn uit bittere noodzaak aan het werk. Avercamp schuwt het lugubere detail niet: links op de voorgrond ...

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Title

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters; Winter Landscape with Iceskaters

Creator

Hendrick Avercamp, draftsman (artist), tekenaar;
Hendrick Avercamp, draftsman (artist), tekenaar

Worktype

painting; schilderij

Cultural Context

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Material

paneel; panel; oil paint (paint); olieverf

Dimensions

support: height 77.3 cm x width 131.9 cm;
drager: hoogte 77,3 cm x breedte 131,9 cm

Technique

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Language

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Date

c. 1608, ca. 1608

Provenance

…; ? sale, E.A. van Ourijk et al., Rotterdam (auction house not known), 19 July 1748, no. 1, fl. 25;{According to Welcker 1933, p. 224, no. S 305: ‘Een ijsvermaak, met vele beelden’, panel 78 x 130 cm; the sale catalogue has not been located.}…; sale, Gijsbert de Clercq (1850-1911), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 1 June 1897, no. 1, fl. 345, to the dealer C.S. Roos; from whom, fl. 550, to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt, 1897; Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt; Aankoop met steun van de Vereniging Rembrandt

Style Period

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Rights

Public domain

Inscription

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Location

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Subjects

church (exterior); winter landscape; landscape symbolizing winter (the four seasons of the year); skates (winter sports); hay-stack; 'kolf' on the ice; sledge, sleigh (winter sports)

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Hendrick Avercamp, Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters; Winter Landscape with Iceskaters, c. 1608, ca. 1608, Rijksmuseum. Public domain.

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