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Breaking the Ice on the Karnemelksloot, Naarden, January 1814
Also titled Het doorijzen van de Karnemelksloot bij Naarden, januari 1814
Pieter Gerardus van Os (The Hague, 1776–1839)
1814 - 1815
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 13 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Breaking the ice on Karnemelksloot at Naarden, 1814, by P.G. van Os. Not all of Napoleon's troops retreated after the collapse of French rule in 1813. Well-armed and with plenty of provisions, the remainder were able to hold their positions in a number of garrison towns. At Den Helder, Naarden, Grave and Delfzijl they eventually capitulated in the spring of 1814 when the new king of France ordered that French troops should evacuate all fortifications outside the country's borders. The Naarden waterway, Karnemelksloot, had frozen over in early January. To prevent a French attack across the ice, it was broken open with a local ferry barge.
