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Enjoying the Ice near a Town
Also titled IJsvermaak bij een stad
Hendrick Avercamp (Amsterdam, 1585–1634)
c. 1620
- Medium
- textile materials, wood (plant material), oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 47 cm x width 89 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from private collectors
- 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
A beggar tries to scrounge a bit of money, and another man has cut a hole in the ice in the hope of catching fish. The needy have to toil to make a living; those who are better off amuse themselves on the ice: and the richest of all – in the right foreground – look on. A few well-to-do ladies wear velvet masks to protect the delicate skin around their eyes from the cold.
