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Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
Also titled Winterlandschap met schaatsers
Hendrick Avercamp (Amsterdam, 1585–1634)
c. 1608
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 77.3 cm x width 131.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
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.
