Fine Art

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters — History & Facts

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.

More Artworks by Hendrick Avercamp

Winter Scene on a Canal by Hendrick Avercamp, oil painting depicting figures ice skating on a snowy canal.

Winter Scene on a Canal

Hendrick Avercamp

A Scene on the Ice, oil on panel by Hendrick Avercamp showing skaters on ice.

A Scene on the Ice

Hendrick Avercamp

Ice-skating in a Village, oil on wood by Hendrick Avercamp, depicting figures skating on ice.

Ice-skating in a Village

Hendrick Avercamp

Winter landscape with ice skaters, oil painting by Hendrick Avercamp

Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters

Hendrick Avercamp

Skating Scene by Hendrick Avercamp, oil painting depicting skaters enjoying winter on ice.

Skating Scene

Hendrick Avercamp

Winter Games on the Frozen River Ijssel, oil painting by Hendrick Avercamp depicting skaters on ice

Winter Games on the Frozen River Ijssel

Hendrick Avercamp

Genre scene of ice skating in winter by Hendrick Avercamp, oil on panel

Enjoying the Ice

Hendrick Avercamp

Skating Near a Town, oil on wood by Hendrick Avercamp, featuring skaters on ice in a winter scene.

Skating Near a Town

Hendrick Avercamp

Winter scene with figures ice skating, oil on wood by Hendrick Avercamp

Enjoying the Ice

Hendrick Avercamp

Enjoying the Ice near a Town by Hendrick Avercamp, oil on panel, depicts skaters enjoying a frozen landscape.

Enjoying the Ice near a Town

Hendrick Avercamp

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A Burial at Ornans

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