Pieter Saenredam

The old town hall of Amsterdam



Pieter Saenredam - The old town hall of Amsterdam



Pieter Saenredam
The old town hall of Amsterdam
1657
64.5 x 83 cm
Oil on panel
Signed and dated on the awning on the right: Pieter Saenredam, Heeft dit eerst naer t leeven Geteeckent met al sijn Coleuren int Jaer 1641 en dit Geschildert int Jaer 1657
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Old Town Hall, Amsterdam

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Schwartz/Bok 13

Collection catalogues
Jonathan Bikker (ed.), Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, nr. 263

Literature
Wolfgang Stechow, Dutch landscape painting of the seventeenth century, London, 1966, fig. 250
Cynthia Lawrence, Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde (1638-1698), Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1991, plate 50
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 5
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 88


Exhibitions

2008 Pride of Place - Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, Nr. 40
1991 Perspectives: Saenredam and the architectural painters of the 17th century, Nr. 23

Provenance

purchased from the painter by the city of Amsterdam on 30 July 1658
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External links

RKD 218908
Rijksmuseum Accession number Sk-C-1409

Other works by Pieter Saenredam


Pieter Saenredam St. Anthony's Chapel and St. Janskerk, Utrecht
St. Anthony's Chapel and St. Janskerk, Utrecht
1645

Pieter Saenredam The Mariakerk and the Mariaplaats, Utrecht
The Mariakerk and the Mariaplaats, Utrecht
1662

Pieter Saenredam View across the nave of the Mariakerk, Utrecht
View across the nave of the Mariakerk, Utrecht
1637

Pieter Saenredam St. Bavokerk, Haarlem
St. Bavokerk, Haarlem
1637

Pieter Saenredam Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Haarlem
Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Haarlem
1652