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Barent Avercamp
Dutch, 1612-1679

Games on the Ice, ca. 1654
Oil on panel

Gift of Rolf R. Roland, 61.8

This lively scene is an inventory of seventeenth-
century Dutch winter activities. While bearded
burghers look on disapprovingly, a well-dressed
woman rides in her horse-drawn sleigh, and
younger men play a form of ice golf.