The Little Ice Age from Hendrick Avercamp

From 20.11.2009 to 15.02.2010, the Rijksmuseum presents the first exihibition devoted to Hendrick Avercamp, the most foremost painter of Dutch winter landscapes in the 17th century.

Avercamp was the first Dutch artist to specialise in paintings of winter landscapes featuring people enjoying the ice. Some 400 years on, our image of life in the harsh winters of the Golden Age is still dominated by Avercamp's ice scenes with their splendid narrative detais of couples skating, children pelting each other with snowballs and unwary individuals falling through the ice. In addition to twenty of his finest paintings, the exhibition features twentyfive of his best drawings from museums and private collections throughout the world.

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