Lot 280: Winter landscape with skaters on a frozen canal

Hendrik Dubbels Amsterdam 1621-1707
Winter landscape with skaters on a frozen canal
with initials 'I V C' (on the boat, lower center)
oil on panel
13 x 16½ in. 33 x 41.9 cm.

Count Esterhazy.
Private collection, Switzerland.

Dr. Ulrike Middendorf has confirmed the attribution to Dubbels upon personal inspection of the work (private communication), and dates it to c. 1655. The composition is probably inspired by Jan van de Capelle's composition of 1653 (Mauritshaus, The Hague); Dubbels painted two other versions of this it, one on a similar scale (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) and a larger version (Private collection).