Central Park, Winter: The Skating Pond
1862 · Hand-colored lithograph · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
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About this work
- Artist
- Currier & Ives (firm active 1857–1907 (Nathaniel Currier 1813–1888, James Merritt Ives 1824–1895))
- Year
- 1862
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph
- Original size
- 46 × 67.5 cm
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Movement
- American Folk Art
Crowds of skaters fill a frozen pond in Central Park: couples hold hands, a man in a top hat pushes a woman in a chair sled, a child falls, and a small dog barks at the front. The women wear full skirts in red, blue and green with fur muffs and short jackets. Behind them a cast-iron bridge crosses the ice and a flag flies over the skating house on the right. The design is after a painting by Charles Parsons and was drawn on the stone by Lyman Wetmore Atwater. Currier & Ives of New York published it in 1862. Skating on the park's lake became a popular winter pastime soon after it opened in 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds this impression, part of the bequest of Adele S. Colgate in 1962.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A crowded skating pond in bright reds, blues and greens on pale grey ice and sky. Hang it in a living room, dining room or entryway for the holiday season beside Avercamp's Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters, in a black frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1862)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- living room, dining room, hallway or entryway
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 18×12, 24×16 in — 18×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×16 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
