# The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam

- By: Pieter Jansz Saenredam (Assendelft, 1597–1665)
- Date: 1657
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 65.5 cm x width 84.5 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-1409--1561063abe285d09ccdc66ed07029ec0)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/xgUtS/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)

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.