Skating competition for women on the Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden January 21, 1809, Nicolaas Baur

At a women’s skating race in leeuwarden in 1809, the crowd watched sixty-four unmarried women vie for a gold cap-brooch. The winner was houkje gerrits bouma. For greater ease, many had thrown off their cloaks. Baur painted the finalists with bare arms, a jettisoned cloak on the ice. It left little to men’s imagination and caused an outcry; therefore it was the last women’s race for many years. Object Type: painting. Genre: landscape painting. Date: 1809. Dimensions: Height: 59.7 cm (23.5 in) Width: 74.9 cm (29.4 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Rijksmuseum. Schaatswedstrijd voor vrouwen op de Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden - 21 januari 1809 - Nicolaas Baur - 1809 - SK-A-5020 - Rijksmuseum