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Women’s Skating Competition on Stadsgracht, Leeuwarden, 21 January 1809
Also titled Schaatswedstrijd voor vrouwen op de Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden, 21 januari 1809
Nicolaas Baur (Harlingen, 1767–1820)
1810
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 59.7 cm x width 74.9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of Willem Jan Hacquebord and Houkje Anna Brandsma
- 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
Thousands of people have flocked to see the final of a women’s skating competition. Houkje Gerrits Bouma crosses the finish line first. Elated, she throws up her arms in triumph. A boy has even climbed a tree to follow the event. During the winter season, everyone went out on the ice, and women commonly participated in speed skating as well.
