Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, Hendrick Avercamp, 1608 oil × Dutch, THe Netherlands. The high vantage point of this painting turns it into a sampler of human – and animal – activity during a harsh winter. Hundreds of people are out on the ice, most of them for pleasure, others working out of dire necessity. Avercamp did not shy away from grim details: in the left foreground crows and a dog feast on the carcass of a horse that has frozen to death. Hendrick Avercamp 1612-1679 Dutch The Netherlands.

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Photo credit: © Peter Horree / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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