Winter landscape looking across a broad frozen river, with a town on a high bank in the background. A tent is pitched on the ice in the foreground to the far left, and people are gathered about the entrance, including a group in a sledge pulled by two horses. There are figures skating and animals playing on the ice, including from left to right, a figure seated on the ground and one on a small sledge chased by a dog, a horse drawn sledge full of people, individual skaters and a group of figures on the far right by the town wall. The sky is a deep blue with dense heavy clouds.