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The Dutch on the Ice · The Old Game
Portrait of a Boy with a Kolf Club
Wybrand de Geest the Elder, oil on panel, 1631 · oil on panel
What it is
Wybrand de Geest’s 1631 portrait of a boy holding his kolf club, painted with full formal seriousness.
Why it matters
Not a genre scene but a commissioned portrait — meaning a family paid to have the game recorded as part of who their son was.
What to notice
He holds the club the way sitters hold swords and books: as an attribute, not a tool.
The game was already something a family wanted on the record.
Provenance
- Maker
- Wybrand de Geest the Elder, oil on panel, 1631
- Era
- Kolf — the Ice Game (1600–1700)
- Chapter
- The Old Game
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Made
- 1631
- Source
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (open access · SK-A-1908) · SK-A-1908
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
