Women’s Skating Competition on the Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden, 21 January 1809 (1809)
Women’s Skating Competition on the Stadsgracht in Leeuwarden, 21 January 1809 (1809)
Painter: 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.
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