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We look across a sunny waterway to the opposite bank, where a line of tall, leafy trees along the canal is backed by a row of red brick buildings and rowhouses with white stone trim in this horizontal landscape painting. The far bank angles from the lower left corner into the distance to our right, where it meets the horizon line near the right edge of the panel, about a fifth of the way up the composition. The water in front of us ripples gently, reflecting the white clouds, pale blue sky, low barges or boats tied up along the edge of both sides of the canal, and the moss green of the…

View Down a Dutch Canal

Jan van der Heyden (Dutch, 1637 - 1712)

c. 1670 · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Gift of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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