Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

Hendrick Avercamp (signed by artist), c. 1608

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.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-A-1718
  • Dimensionssupport: height 77.3 cm x width 131.9 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

  • Title(s)

    • Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
    • Winter Landscape with Skaters
    • Winter Landscape with Iceskaters (former title)

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-A-1718

  • Description

    Winterlandschap met ijsvermaak. Dorpsgezicht met vele figuren op het ijs: schaatsers, kolfspelers, wandelaars. Rechts een arrenslede, links een kerk.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    signature, on the right, on the wall of a wooden shed with graffiti (H and A ligated): ‘HAenricus / Av’

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Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Hendrick Avercamp (signed by artist)

  • Dating

    c. 1608

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on panel

  • Dimensions

    support: height 77.3 cm x width 131.9 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Exhibitions

Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

  • Acquisition

    purchase 1898-01

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • 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

Documentation

    • Marco van Baalen, 'Uitgelijnd : Winterlandschap met ijsvermaak', De Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 30 (2005) nr. 1, p. 8-9.
    • Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).
    • M. Verhoef, 'Van sneeuw naar verf', Kunstschrift 53 (2010) nr. 6, p. 14, 15
    • Corine Koole, 'Literair levensverhaal : Hendrick Avercamp', Oog 3 (2009) nr. 5, p. 76-87.

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