View of The Hague
Also titled Gezicht op Den Haag
Cornelis Springer (Amsterdam, 1817–1891)
c. 1850 - c. 1852
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- depth 10 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of J.H. Springer, Haarlem
- 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
In the 19th century Rembrandt grew into the national hero of the Netherlands. In Amsterdam a statue was erected in his honour. For its ceremonial unveiling, the Parkzaal (a concert hall) was decorated with huge paintings of towns where he was thought to have worked. This is the sketch for the canvas Rembrandt in The Hague. In the distance one sees the silhouette of the city with the church tower of the Grote or Sint- Jacobskerk. Only later did it emerge that Rembrandt had never actually worked in The Hague.
