Sketches of Figures on the Ice / recto: Winter Scene on the Frozen Canal near the Kalverhekkenpoort, Kampen

Hendrick Avercamp

before 1607

graphite; recto: pen and brown ink, with transparent and opaque watercolour, over traces of graphite or black chalk; traces of framing line in brown ink (left border)

Rijksmuseum

A sketch depicts several figures engaged in activities on a frozen body of water, possibly ice skating or playing. The scene is rendered with loose, gestural lines. …; sale, Benoît Coster (?-before 1875, Arnhem and Amsterdam), Amsterdam (C.F. Roos <em>et al.</em>), 18 March 1875 <em>sqq.</em>, no. 2 (‘H. Avercamp. Vue d'une rivière près d'une ville, étoffé de patineurs et autres figures’), fl. 135, to the dealer ‘Van Gogh’;{Copy RKD.} from whom acquired by the museum (L. 2228), 1879{For security reasons, the drawing was transferred from the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken to the museum in 1879.}