# Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Farm House [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELDE, Esaias van de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, diameter 34 cm ## Commentary In the present painting, we see townspeople enjoying a day on the ice. In front is a very formal looking couple perched on a sled with a tall, decorated back, while to the left a skater in a yellow vest looks dangerously close to tipping over. This combination of humor and naivety is characteristic of Van de Velde's earliest works, as are the wispy trees and rather flat buildings. The painting is signed and dated lower right: E. VVELDE. 1616 \(VV in ligature\). ## Related artworks - [Bandits Attacking a Caravan of Travellers]() - [Battle Scene in an Open Landscape]() - [Ferry Boat \(detail\)]() - [Ferry Boat \(detail\)]() - [Ferry Boat]() - [Garden Party before a Palace]() - [Landscape]() - [Merry Company Banqueting on a Terrace]() - [Riders on a Path between Ruins and a High Bank]() - [The Joy of Ice on a Frozen Canal near a Walled Town]() - [Traveller and his Pack Horse]() - [View of Zierikzee]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()