Thomas Heeremans (1641 - 1697) - Winter pleasures

Thomas Heeremans
Dutch painter
Haarlem 1641 – 1697 Haarlem
Winter outside the walls of Haarlem with people on the ice taking a ferry and others ice
skating or making a ride with a sledge
Oil on panel : 23,6 X 31,4 cm
Signed and dated bottom middle “THMans 1675”
Frame : 35,2 X 41,8 cm

Seventeen years after having painted this composition Heeremans copied it in 1692, changing some figures here and there. That painting, which formed a couple with a summer landscape, was sold at the Dorotheum in Vienna in 2013.