Icy fun! The ice skaters glide across the slick surface, setting course with their arms crossed confidently behind their backs and their coats flapping. It isn’t easy to keep your balance –the poor fellow lying on his back in the middle of the picture, arms and legs splayed out, reminds us of that. The only ones with solid ground under their feet are the two people on the snow-covered path which recedes into the distance on the left and has a windmill rising up out of it. The background reveals...
Signature and date: Jongkind 1866
Kunsthandel, Niederlande (2006); MKdW (2006).
Nicola Carola Heuwinkel: Johan Barthold Jongkind 1819–1891, in: Kunst und Küste. Ausgewählte Werke der Sammlung Kunst der Westküste, hrsg. von Thorsten Sadowsky, Alkersum/Föhr 2013, S. 140, Abb. S. 141. [Weiterführende Literatur] Johan Barthold Jongkind. Ein Wegbereiter des Impressionismus, hrsg. von John Sillevis/Götz Czymmek/Jacques Foucart, Ausst.-Kat. Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag/Wallraf-Richartz-Museum – Fondation Corboud, Köln/Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Zwolle 2004