Frans Huys, Skating and playing ice colf before the Saint George's Gate, Antwerp

English, Nederlands

English

Engraving on paper, 17th century, made by Frans Huys (1522 - 1562) after Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530 - 1569), and published by Joannes Galle (1600 - 1676)

Skating and playing ice colf before the Saint George's Gate, Antwerp; a bridge with wagons leads to city gate across middle ground, while skaters fill the frozen canal

Inscription Content: Lettered "P. Breugel delineavit et pinxit ad vivum 1553" in lower l plate margin and "Ioan. Galle excudit" with the letter K in lower r plate margin; also two triplets of Netherlandish text in verse comparing the precariousness of human life with ice-skating in center of lower plate margin; running along top Latin, French and Netherlandish title and the roof of gate lettered "Porta S. Georgii Antverpiae. 1553."

Engraving. 231 x 294 mm

British Museum (AN62084001)

Literature

• Beredeneerde catalogus van de prenten naar Pieter Breughel de Oude door L. Lebeer (1969, pag. 126-129).

Nederlands

De slibberachtigheyt van 's menschen leven: Ijsvermaak op de vestingsgracht nabij de Sint-Jorispoort te Antwerpen.

Ongedateerde kopergravure van Joannes Galle (1600 - 1676), naar het schilderij Winterlandschap met schaatsers en vogelknip van Pieter Breughel de Oudere.

23,1 x 29,4 cm (h x b).