ID: 700008100 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008100	Record Type: Movable Work
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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

Work Types:

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>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1615 - 1620

Creator Display:

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.)

Cultures:

Dutch (preferred)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	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-)