Skating on the Frozen Amstel River by Adam van Breen https://www.nga.gov/artworks/150754-skating-frozen-amstel-river
In this winter landscape, aristocrats, burghers, countrymen, and orphans take to the ice of the frozen Amstel River. From a young boy propelling himself with sticks on a prikslee (small push-sled) to the group of three stately men with no skates conversing by the riverbank, each of Van Breen’s figures colorfully brings to life the possible actions and interactions of a winter’s day on the ice.
A man in the front center wears puffy scarlet-red pants with white stockings, a red