Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis

• Amsterdam City View with Houses on the Herengracht and the old Haarlemmersluis
• The Nieuwe Zijds Voorburgwal with the Oude Haarlemmersluis, Amsterdam (with Topographical Liberties)

SK-A-154

signature: ‘VDHeyde’

Van der Heyden captured the activity on and around the water in Amsterdam’s old town centre. With an eye for detail, he painted the old Haarlemmersluis, a lock on the Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal. However, the picture does not present a real location: Van der Heyden combined the lock with a row of houses that is actually on a different canal, the Herengracht.

painter: Jan van der Heyden

c. 1670

olieverf op paneel

• height 44 cm x width 57.5 cm
• depth 8 cm

purchase 1809

Public domain

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/20015638