Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (Colf on the Ice)
Hendrick Avercamp, c. 1608
No print size passed the check for this piece: at 10 x 8 in, Wrong shape: a 28% crop. We would rather show it than sell a soft print.
See pieces like it you can buyThe Dutch on the ice, colf clubs in hand — the game’s frozen ancestor, painted before there was a rulebook to break. The house opens here on purpose: before the links, the ice; before the rulebook, the winter afternoon. The colf players share the ice with skaters, gossips, and dogs — the game began as part of the crowd. Every game was once just what people did with a cold afternoon.
- Maker
- Hendrick Avercamp
- Date
- c. 1608
- Medium of the original
- Painting
- Original held by
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Credit
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Cleared for print
- Catalogue number
- PA-00001
Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.
| Size | Why |
|---|---|
| 10 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 12 x 8 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 14 x 11 in | Wrong shape: a 26% crop |
| 16 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 18 x 12 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 20 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 24 x 16 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 24 x 18 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 30 x 20 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 30 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 28% crop |
| 36 x 24 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
| 40 x 30 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 48 x 36 in | Wrong shape: a 23% crop |
| 60 x 40 in | Wrong shape: a 13% crop |
- Scanned
- 2026-10-07
- Master file
- 6,278 x 3,626 px, srgb
- Tone
- Darks 56, lights 209 of 255; 0% clipped light, 0% clipped dark
- Colour
- 0% vivid
- Sharpness
- 8.33
- Notes
- Neutrals lean warm (yellow): the paper and varnish of the original, kept as scanned
The Links
Colf and kolf on the ice: the game’s frozen ancestor.
All 42 pieces from The Links
