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View of the Kolkje Canal, Amsterdam
Also titled Gezicht op het Kolkje, Amsterdam
Robert Demachy (Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 1859–1936)
1907 - 1914
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 214 mm x width 147 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the VSBfonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Foreign Pictorialists considered ‘the Netherlands’ an exciting subject. With its windmills and waterways the landscape afforded endless possibilities. The reflective water of the canals in the cities also featured regularly in the work of photographers such as Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan, and Alvin Langdon Coburn. The Frenchman Robert Demachy ventured into the Kolkje, a narrow canal in Amsterdam that was a famous tourist attraction already in the 19th century.
