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Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis
Also titled Amsterdams stadsgezicht met huizen aan de Herengracht en de oude Haarlemmersluis
Jan van der Heyden (Gorinchem, 1637–1712)
c. 1670
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Van der Heyden captured the activity on and around the water in Amsterdam’s old town centre. With an eye for detail, he painted the old Haarlemmersluis, a lock on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. However, the picture does not present a real location: Van der Heyden combined the lock with a row of houses that is actually on a different canal, the Herengracht.
