The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam

Pieter Jansz Saenredam (signed by artist), 1657

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.

  • Artwork typepainting
  • Object numberSK-C-1409
  • Dimensionssupport: height 65.5 cm x width 84.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicsoil on panel

Identification

  • Title(s)

    The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam

  • Object type

  • Object number

    SK-C-1409

  • Description

    Gezicht op het oude stadhuis aan de Dam te Amsterdam. In de galerij van de vierschaar en voor het gebouw enkele personen. Rechts enkele winkeltjes.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    • signature, date and inscription, lower right, on the front of the shed roofs of the shops: ‘Pieter Saenredam, Heeft dit eerst naer t'Leeven Geteeckent met al sijn Coleuren int Jaer 1641. en dit Geschildert, int jaer 1657.’
    • inscription, lower centre, on the step: ‘Dit is het oude Raethuijs der stadt Amsterdam, welck afbrande int jaer 1651 den 7 julij, in 3 uren tyt sonder meer.’

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Creation

  • Creation

    painter: Pieter Jansz Saenredam (signed by artist)

  • Dating

    1657

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    oil on panel

  • Dimensions

    support: height 65.5 cm x width 84.5 cm

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Acquisition and rights

  • Credit line

    On loan from the City of Amsterdam

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    From the artist, fl. 400, to the treasurers of the City of Amsterdam, Johan Huijdecoper and Dr Nicolaes Tulp, for the burgomasters of Amsterdam, through the mediation of Karel Godin, 30 July 1658;{Annotations by the artist on a drawing in Haarlem, Teylers Museum; Plomp in Haarlem 1997, p. 367.} first mentioned in the Burgomasters’ Chamber of the new town hall, Amsterdam, 1663;{Dapper 1663, p. 370.} temporarily stored with three other paintings from the town hall in the house of Jan Spaan, 1808;{Brugmans 1913, pp. 59-60} transferred to the Burgomasters’ Chamber of the Prinsenhof, Amsterdam;{Scheltema 1879, p. 38.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1945

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