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…
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View Down a Dutch Canal

Jan van der Heyden (Dutch, 1637 - 1712)

c. 1670

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 32.5 × 39 cm (12 13/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of George M. and Linda H. Kaufman
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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