Title

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, c.1608. Creator: Hendrick Avercamp.

Caption

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, c.1608. Hendrick Avercamp turned the winter landscape into a subject in its own right. A typical feature of his early work is the high horizon. This enabled Avercamp to focus on the dozens of figures on the ice. He showed all kinds of uncouth details in this bird's-eye view, including couples making love and going to the toilet and in the distance, in the middle, a man urinating.

Date

1608

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A68_484

Model release

NA

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

65.1Mo (5.2Mo) / 53.2cm x 30.7cm / 6278 x 3626 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe leisure season female women woman people male child children group sport busy man men frozen landscape town painting ice winter sports icy guy view museum Netherlands Dutch color rustic location century community vista ice skater concept ice skating pastime 17th century wintry daily Life oil Painting ice-skating Colour Elevated View golden age rural seventeenth century Rijksmuseum rural life TGN winter portrait oil arial view Hendrick Avercamp oil on panel Avercamp Hendrick Dutch Golden Age Regionalism Painting Heritage Art oil on panel Low Countries the Mute of Kampen de Stomme van Kampen