# The Regents of the Spinhuis and Nieuwe Werkhuis, Amsterdam

- By: Karel du Jardin (Amsterdam, 1626–1678)
- Date: 1669
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: height 225 cm x width 390 cm x weight 97 kg
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-4--a96b3756a5954a43e14c773c170509d2)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/vcJXR/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A servant bringing a letter temporarily interrupts a meeting. The other five men are the regents of the Amsterdam Spinhuis, the female house of correction. The women imprisoned there for theft or begging spent most of their days spinning. Affluent citizens like these gentlemen administered these sorts of institutions. Thus was civic peace maintained.