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Skaters on the ice outside a town c.1620
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and some watercolour, over traces of graphite on off-white paper. | 21.2 x 32.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 906465
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A drawing of two elegantly dressed couples skating hand in hand towards the right where a masked lady and a gentleman are standing. Behind them are more skaters, and in the background is a town with a church and several windmills. RL 6465-6513 amount to nearly one third of Avercamp's known drawings and represent the largest holding in one collection. They cover all categories of his drawings- studies of single figures, and groups, genre scenes and landscapes- and illustrate his considerable variety in finishand technique. In general the artist did not make preparatory drawings. They seem to have been made for their own sake, and some of the more finished coloured sheets were probably sold. The remainder served as a vocabulary of human behaviour as for the most part seen in the provincial town of Kampen.
Provenance
First recorded in a Royal Collection inventory of c.1810 (Inv. A, p. 118: '42. Drawings of some Master in the Stile of Breughel, representing the Diversions of the Dutch and Flemish on the Ice &c: with some Drawings of single figures for the Dresses only').
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Medium and techniques
Pen and brown ink with brown wash and some watercolour, over traces of graphite on off-white paper.
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21.2 x 32.1 cm (sheet of paper)
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