Art, Music & Film
A 400-year-old winter painting comes home
Two Dutch museums bought Hendrick Avercamp's Colf Players on the Ice together. They shared the news on September 14, 2026.
A famous winter painting is back in the Netherlands to stay. Two Dutch museums, the Rijksmuseum and the Mauritshuis, bought it together. They shared the news on September 14, 2026.
Hendrick Avercamp painted Colf Players on the Ice about 400 years ago. Two men are playing a game on a frozen canal. One of them is ready to hit a ball.
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frozenadjective
Turned into hard ice because it is very cold.
Two men are playing a game on a frozen canal.