Detail View: The AMICA Library: Winter Scene

AMICA ID: 
AIC_.1965.30
AMICA Library Year: 
2001
Object Type: 
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name: 
Avercamp, Hendric
Creator Nationality: 
European; Dutch
Creator Role: 
Artist
Creator Dates/Places: 
Netherlandish; 1585-c.1633
Creator Name-CRT: 
Hendric Avercamp
Title: 
Two Old Men beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Urtecht
Title Type: 
preferred
Title: 
The Amsterdam-Utrecht Mail Sled
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
The Amsterdam Mail Sled
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Winter Scene, with the Mail Sled
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Winter Scene
Title Type: 
alternate
View: 
full view
Creation Date: 
1620/33
Creation Start Date: 
1620
Creation End Date: 
1633
Materials and Techniques: 
Watercolor and gouache, with pen and brown and blue ink, over graphite, on cream laid paper.
Classification Term: 
watercolor
Classification Term: 
Drawing
Classification Term: 
Prints and Drawings
Creation Place: 
Europe,Netherlands,Holland (historic region)
Dimensions: 
179 x 297 mm
AMICA Contributor: 
The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: 
Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 
1965.30
Credit Line: 
The Art Institute of Chicago, Clarence Buckingham Collection
Rights: 
Context: 
exhib. label:Two Old Men Beside a Sled Bearing the Coats of Arms of Amsterdam and Utrecht1620/1625Pen and black and brown ink, with brush and brown wash and watercolor over black chalk on paperClarence Buckingham CollectionHendrick Avercamp was a deaf-mute with keen powers of observation and a warm snse of humor. This scene, possibly depicting the post sleigh between Utrecht and Amsterdam, is one of his best drawings. It is characteristic of the Dutch genre of pleasures on the ice, which originated during the severe cold weather that occurred in the Netherlands in the early 17th century.
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