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Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

Hendrick Avercampca. 1608

Rijksmuseum

Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

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.

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  • Title: Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
  • Creator: Avercamp, Hendrick
  • Date Created: ca. 1608
  • Physical Dimensions: paneel
  • Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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