Fake History Hunter

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The text is about the image below that paragraph.

Still no proper winter here, so let’s look at another old Dutch ice painting to get a little bit of badly needed winter atmosphere.
Another one by Hendrick Avercamp… there better not be naughty bits in this painting from 1610, Hendrick is cheeky painter.

You can find a high resolution image of the painting here at the Rijksmuseum website.

Now let’s have a little look at the details.

Fancy lady looks like she’s trying to smuggle a pancake under her hat:

Oh no, there’s a whole group that’s gone through the ice!
In these Dutch winter paintings someone is always falling and often someone going through the ice, but this is the first time we have a bunch of people ending up in this predicament:

Oh phew, no need to worry, someone has gone and got a ladder!
I love the little detail of the bucket upside down on that branch, you know that’s something the painter saw in his daily life, you don’t make that up:

Look at this dashing cad!
I guess he turns quite a few heads and he knows it:

I’m pretty sure that’s an outhouse, normally the water would carry all the human waste away but now it’s frozen… better avoid that spot for a while:

This “ice hockey” sort of game was called ‘Kolf’, and it sure was popular, you can see it in many paintings of the era.
And the dog seems to like it too.

Fun shed, I’d like one of these;

Lovely little bridge, thanks to the counterweight (it appears to just be a big rock) you’d be able to open it on your own by simply pulling the rope on the left:

Batman’s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother:

Some people don’t have time for fun on the ice, they have to work, like this man gathering firewood:

That poor woman, is she doing the laundry in the icy water?
I wonder why, there surely is a fire burning at her house anyway, putting a jug of water next to it or putting rocks from the fire into a bucket of water would have at least given her warm water to do it with:

I love that some of these houses look like they’re Medieval, some of them probably were when this painting was made, but how houses were built, especially common houses, didn’t change much and… hang on… what’s happening there…

Oh not again, Hendrick behave yourself, you always put this sort of thing in your paintings! It’s just not proper!!
What will people think of me now that I’ve shared it?
Let’s all pretend we didn’t see this and move on:

Oh look! Is that Rin Tin Tin?

OH COME ON.
That’s it, I’m done, I can’t discuss paintings with you fine folks when there’s this sort of thing happening.
Hendrick has ruined it for us all, AGAIN.
Kids, say “thank you Hendrick for ruining everything” and grab my hand, we’re going home.
I’m shocked and appalled.

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