Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

• Winter Landscape with Iceskaters
• Winter Landscape with Skaters
• Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

Winter Landscape with Iceskaters

SK-A-1718

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

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.

Marco van Baalen, 'Uitgelijnd : Winterlandschap met ijsvermaak', De Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 30 (2005) nr. 1, p. 8-9.

painter: Hendrick Avercamp (signed by artist)

c. 1608

olieverf op paneel

height 77.3 cm x width 131.9 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1898-01

Public domain

...; ? 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

• Marco van Baalen, 'Uitgelijnd : Winterlandschap met ijsvermaak', De Rijksmuseum Kunstkrant 30 (2005) nr. 1, p. 8-9.
• 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.
• Inzoomer object op zaal, 2013 (Nederlands/English).

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