Hendrick Avercamp’s Ice Scene — a very popular painting of villagers on the frozen canal. People are playing but also working (woman washing clothes, man carrying reeds), a few fell through the ice — a rescuer is approaching with a ladder.
In the Mauritshuis in The Hague
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