A variant signed with monogram, also on panel and measuring 32 x 58.5cm., was with Matthiesen, Berlin, in 1934 and with Edward Speelman, London, in 1960; it was included in the exhibition Het Landschap in de Nederlanden 1550-1630, De Beyerd, Breda, and Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 1960-1, no.3. In this the composition is extended to the right to include a second, standing hunter, but the figure of the crouching hunter, the position of the beacon, many of the skaters, the view of the village and the boat locked in the ice in front of it correspond closely.

The composition is also intimately related to a painting by Hendrick Avercamp offered in these Rooms, 15 April 1992, lot 29, in which the dog, the beacon and the village recur with only minor variations