# The Nieuwe Haarlemse Sluis at the Singel, known as ‘Souvenir d’Amsterdam’

- By: Matthijs Maris (The Hague, 1839–1917)
- Date: 1871
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 46.5 cm x width 35 cm
- Credit line: Gift of the heirs of W.J. van Randwijk, The Hague
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-2704--613a6767aa74623eb08e9ab57b06c2bf)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/50ce500243d55636974eb766f7ee5d5d.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

When Jacob returned to the Netherlands, Matthijs had to support himself in Paris. His financial worries explain why he reused an already painted canvas for this work. Beneath this city view is a landscape with a ferry; probably an oil sketch Jacob had left behind. Parts of this underlying composition are still visible. The bright green brushstrokes in the brown foreground at the right are from the overgrown bank underneath.