Skaters Near a Village

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Skaters Near a Village

Artist Isack van Ostade (Dutch, 1621-1649)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Date1640s

DimensionsH: 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm); W: 17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1953.76

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 22

Label TextDuring the 17th century, northern Europe was affected by what is known as the Little Ice Age. The period of colder winters meant the frequent freezing over of Holland’s numerous canals. Many artists saw the pictorial and narrative possibilities of the festival-like atmosphere of villagers coming out to play on the ice. In this painting Haarlem artist Isaak van Ostade concentrates particularly on peasants taking advantage of the frozen landscape to ice-skate and sled, but also to go about their daily work.Published ReferencesSedelmeyer Gallery, Illustrated Catalogue of the Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters, Paris, 1899, no. 35.

Hofstede de Groot, C., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, London, 1907-1928, III, no. 261.

Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 152, March 1954, repr.

Wittmann, Otto, Jr., "The Life of the People," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 1, no. 3, Fall 1957, p. [5].

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 119, pl. 109.

Kostyria, Maksim, Adriaen Van Ostade: His Life and Work, 1610-1685, Igor Minakov, 2019, repr. (col.) no. 230, p. 236.

Exhibition HistoryBrussels, Five Centuries of Ancient Art, 1935, no. 355.

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday Life, Genre Painting in Europe 1500-1900, 1954, pl. 38.

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, The Young Rembrandt and His Times, 1958, no. 55, repr. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego. CA. 1958.