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Frolicking on a Frozen Canal in a Town
Also titled IJsvermaak op een stadsgracht
c. 1615 - c. 1620
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- outer size: depth 7 cm (support incl. frame)
- 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
Jan van de Velde II (1593 - 1641). Frolicking on a frozen canal in a town, c. 1620. The frozen canal beyond the city walls of Haarlem is bustling with activity. It is as if all the inhabitants have turned their back on the city and are busy skating, sledding or playing kolf, a game involving a ball and sticks. Van de Velde has portrayed the various forms of winter fun in great detail: on the right a gentleman is adjusting the skates of his richly attired partner, nearby someone else takes a tumble and, on a lighter note, the man on the left is relieving himself. Purchased in 1884.
