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

Title(s)

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

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1898-A-3738

Description

Een eendenjager met zijn buit aan zijn gordel en zijn geweer over de schouder, aan de rand van een toegevroren rivier; op het ijs talrijke figuurtjes.

Artist

• draughtsman: Hendrick Avercamp

Dating

c. 1625 - c. 1630

Physical features

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

Material

• paper
• deck paint
• watercolor (paint)
• ink
• graphite (mineral)

Technique

pen / brush

Measurements

height 153 mm × width 192 mm

What

• return from the hunt
• sleigh, sledge (non-sport)
• sledge, sleigh (winter sports)

Credit line

• Gift of A.H. Beels van Heemstede-van Loon

Acquisition

gift Apr-1898

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

• Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) bijgenaamd "De stomme van Campen" en Barent Avercamp, 1612-1679, "schilders tot Campen", Clara J. Welcker, D.J. Hensbroek-van der Poel
• Hendrick Avercamp : de meester van het ijsgezicht, Pieter Roelofs, Jonathan Bikker, Bianca M. du Mortier, Marijn Schapelhouman, Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Art, p. 105, afb. 130
• Hendrick Avercamp : master of the ice scene, Pieter Roelofs, Jonathan Bikker, Bianca M. du Mortier, Marijn Schapelhouman, p. 105, afb. 130