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Winter Scene on a Canal, 1615

Hendrik Avercamp

Dutch, 1855-1634

Oil on wood panel

Toledo Museum of Art

Toledo Ohio, USA

 

A canal has frozen over in a Dutch village, trapping boats and inviting people of different social backgrounds to mingle on the ice. Gentlemen and ladies greet one another, ride a horse-drawn sleigh, and rent skates alongside humbler villagers, A group of merchant-class men in the center foreground play dilf, a game related to golf, while three industrious peasants in the right foreground prepare to fish for eel through the ice.

 

Avercamp, frequently added that walking man on the lower left to his paintings

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Uploaded on December 14, 2018
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