# Summer

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/summer-ra1514b6ff0503d>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [VENNE, Adriaen Pietersz. van de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak, 43 x 68 cm

## Commentary

A Summer and an unusually benign Winter, each signed and dated 1614, are paired by van der Venne. The brilliantly lit scene of ice skating, ice fishing, and ice sailing is one of fun and flirtation, since warm weather is the time when the poor work in the fields and the wealthy travel.

## Related artworks

- [A Cavalier at His Dressing Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/a-cavalier-at-his-dressing-table-reab9c63c575327>)
- [Al-Arm](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/al-arm-r21c63a40fbd0f1>)
- [Alle Baeten Helpen \(&#34;Every Gift Helps&#34;\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/alle-baeten-helpen-every-gift-helps-r47675903409c33>)
- [Allegory of the Twelve Years&#39; Truce](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/allegory-of-the-twelve-years-truce-rac759ba6938b06>)
- [An Amorous Peasant Couple Conversing](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/an-amorous-peasant-couple-conversing-rb01e8c95122dd8>)
- [Armoe&#39; Soeckt List \(&#34;Poverty Leads to Cunning&#34;\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/armoe-soeckt-list-poverty-leads-to-cunning-rdc6288bc42dec7>)
- [Dance of Death](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/dance-of-death-r6335bc90b7e243>)
- [Emblem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/emblem-re8886f74fb3195>)
- [Emblem](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/emblem-rf22a0382868c01>)
- [Fishing for Souls](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/fishing-for-souls-re4f2051389e6e3>)
- [Fools Have the Most Fun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/fools-have-the-most-fun-r0f9357173caa89>)
- [Fray en Leelijck \(Beautiful and Ugly\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/venne-adriaen-pietersz-van-de-r4a4c7dc9437133/fray-en-leelijck-beautiful-and-ugly-r1963f064b7cd14>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)