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A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle
A Winter Scene with Skaters near a Castle is an oil-on-oak painting undertaken between 1608 and 1609 by the Dutch artist Hendrick Avercamp.
Like his 1608 work "Winter Landscape with Skaters", this painting shows crowds of people skating in a winter landscape, among buildings and bare trees. The castle in the background is imaginary. The sledge to the right displays a lion rampant, perhaps alluding to the heraldic lion from the arms of the Dutch United Provinces.
Winter Landscape with Ice skaters and Bird trap
Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap is a 1565 painting attributed to the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, located in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a bird trap. It has become known as the original or oldest exemplar of the most successful painting of the Brueghel family dynasty, since the art historian