# The View from the Batavian Embassy in Paris

- By: Josephus Augustus Knip (Tilburg, 1777–1847)
- Date: 1801
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 97 cm x width 129.5 cm
- Credit line: Jonkheer W.A. van den Bosch Bequest, Doorn
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-3909--b2af290e183eaf18791cd995c8fbd1bc)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/wXuhk/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, the Dutch ambassador in Paris, commissioned Knip to make a series of paintings of the Batavian embassy, the Hôtel de Beauharnais. This is the view from the embassy, towards the two identical facades of the Hôtel de la Marine and the Hôtel de Crillon on the Place de la Concorde. An optical telegraph is visible at right atop a gabled roof, while another one can be seen in the far right distance, on Montmartre. Such enabled contact between Paris and the Netherlands.