The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam
Also titled Het oude stadhuis in Amsterdam
Pieter Jansz Saenredam (Assendelft, 1597–1665)
1657
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 65.5 cm x width 84.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- 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
Saenredam based this painting on a drawing he had made sixteen years earlier. On the step of the portico, he noted that the dilapidated town hall had in the meantime been destroyed by fire and replaced by a new monumental one (now the Palace on Dam Square). From 1658 this painting hung in the stately chamber of the mayors in the new Town Hall as a memento of the old building.
