Winter Landscape with Skaters

Winter Landscape with Skaters is a c.1608 oil-on-oak painting by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

[1][2] This painting shows ice skaters of all sorts enjoying a day on a frozen river.

A boat sails away on a sled in the background as a group of fishermen make efforts to free a frozen sailboat in the foreground.

Winter Landscape with Skaters is considered one of Avercamp's earliest works, and is painted in a style strongly reminiscent of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1565 painting Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap.

He was influenced in his subject by the Little Ice Age, particularly the cold winter of 1607–08, and was the first of the Dutch painters to specialise in snow scenes.