Public domain
Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWinter Landscape with Ice Skaters. c. 1608. Hendrick Avercamp. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
