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Winter Landscape with Skaters
Winter Landscape with Skaters
Dutch Golden Age · c. 1608
A frozen river crowded with skaters, golfers, fallen figures, horse-drawn sleds, and one distinctly unhelpful dog. Avercamp, deaf and mute, became the specialist of the Little Ice Age tondo.
A Woman Doing Laundry in an Ice Hole (recto)
A Woman Doing Laundry in an Ice Hole (recto)
Netherlands · c. 1618 · black and red chalk, graphite, watercolor heightened with white on blue paper
Two Gentlemen (verso)
Two Gentlemen (verso)
Netherlands · c. 1618 · Pen and black ink, black and red chalk, graphite and watercolor on blue paper
A Woman Doing Laundry in an Ice Hole (recto); Two Gentlemen (verso)
A Woman Doing Laundry in an Ice Hole (recto); Two Gentlemen (verso)
Netherlands · c. 1618 · black and red chalk, graphite, watercolor, pen and black ink, black and red chalk, graphite, watercolor (verso) on blue paper
Two Old Men beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Utrecht
Two Old Men beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Utrecht
Netherlands · 1620–1633 · Opaque and translucent watercolors