Winter Landscape with a Duck Hunter with Game in his Belt and his Gun over his Shoulder on the Bank of a Frozen River

Hendrick Avercamp

c. 1625 - c. 1630

point of brush and grey ink, pen and brown ink, with watercolour and opaque white, over traces of graphite (?); framing line in dark brown ink, with gold-coloured border

Rijksmuseum

A winter scene depicts people on a frozen river, with a hunter in the foreground holding a gun and game. Several figures are engaged in activities like pulling a barrel and riding in a sleigh, while birds fly in the pale sky. point of brush and grey ink, pen and brown ink, with watercolour and opaque white, over traces of graphite (?); framing line in dark brown ink, with gold-coloured border