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A band of gray ice spans the bottom quarter of this vertical landscape painting, where dozens of people stand, skate, ride in sledges, or cluster near a slender wooden tower, all beneath a vivid blue sky screened with towering gray clouds. We look slightly down onto the scene from a distance. The cloud bank is horizontally streaked with pale yellow light along the bottom, but swells into gray puffs that break apart in several places toward the top to reveal patches of blue sky. The people below wear heavy coats, hats, and trousers, mostly in muted slate blue, gray, and brown. Many have their…
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Ice Scene near a Wooden Observation Tower

Jan van Goyen (Dutch, 1596 - 1656)

1646

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 36.5 × 34.3 cm (14 3/8 × 13 1/2 in.)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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