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ID: 700008100 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008100 | Record Type: Movable Work |
Images: 1 | |
A Winter Scene with Two Gentlemen Playing Colf (drawing (visual work); Hendrick Avercamp (Dutch, 1585 - 1634) (Dutch Artist); about 1615 - 1620; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2008.13) | |
Note: This lively drawing depicts a variety of figures enjoying the winter landscape, including two men playing kolf in the foreground, watched by a male observer. Kolf, a traditional Dutch sport that is a cross between golf and ice hockey, appears in many of Avercamp's winter scenes. In the background, other figures ice skate, sledge, and converse against a pale gray winter sky and a landscape dotted with frozen boats, barren trees, and a lone windmill. Avercamp includes charming vignettes, including a young boy on a sled, a couple skating together, a horse-drawn sled, and several figures that slipped and fell on the ice - all figures that consistently reappear in Avercamp's paintings. This scene is an exceptional example of the type of winter landscape popularized by Avercamp and highly sought-after by collectors in seventeenth-century Holland. Winter scenes with ice skaters would have reminded seventeenth-century audiences of the saying "de slibberachtigheyt van 's menschen leven" (the slipperiness of human life), and the addition of a faintly visible gallows in the right distance of this drawing, as is common with Avercamp's winter landscapes, suggests that Avercamp's light-hearted genre scenes are also a reminder of the frivolousness of life. | |
Titles: |
A Winter Scene with Two Gentlemen Playing Colf (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U) |
A Winter Scene with Two Gentlemen Playing Kolf (C,U,English,U,U) |
Catalog Level: item |
drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred) |
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) |
drawings (preferred) |
Creation Date: about 1615 - 1620 |
Hendrick Avercamp (Dutch, 1585 - 1634) (Dutch Artist) [preferred,JPGM] |
Avercamp, Hendrick (Dutch painter, 1585-1634) [500030575] |
Locations: |
Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body) |
Repository Numbers: 2008.13 |
Other: Creation: Nederland [7016845] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic) |
Display Materials: Pencil, pen and ink, and gouache |
ink [300015012] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>) |
gouache (paint) [300070114] | |
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint) |
pencils (drawing and writing equipment) [300022439] | |
.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>) |
pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452] | |
.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>) |
Dimensions: 9.4 x 15.6 cm (3 11/16 x 6 1/8 in.) |
Dutch (preferred) |
genre (preferred) |
human figures |
men (male humans) [300025928] | |
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT) |
kolven [300386077] | |
.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <physical activities by location>, <ice and snow activities>, ice sports) (AAT) |
Inscriptions: Verso: in black chalk ¿310006, A1¿ |
List/Hierarchical Position: |
..... Movable Works |
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media |
Sources and Contributors: | |
A Winter Scene with Two Gentlemen Playing Colf | ........ [JPGM,VP] |
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) | |
A Winter Scene with Two Gentlemen Playing Kolf | ........ [JPGM] |
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) | |
Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP] |
Note: | |
English | ..... [JPGM] |
..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-) | |
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