The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam, Pieter Jansz Saenredam, 1657

Identification

Title(s)

The Old Town Hall of Amsterdam

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-1409

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.’ (Pieter Saenredam first drew this from life with all its colours in the year 1641, and painted it in the year 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.’ (This is the old town hall of the city of Amsterdam, which burned down in the year 1651, the 7th of July, within the space of 3 hours [or: in 3 hours, without any other buildings being destroyed].)

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.

Creation

Artist

painter: Pieter Jansz Saenredam (signed by artist)

Dating

1657

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

support: height 65.5 cm × width 84.5 cm

Subject

What

townhall

Where

Stadhuis van Amsterdam (14e eeuw-1652)

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan Nov-1950

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

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Documentation

De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 244
Hollandse stadsgezichten uit de Gouden Eeuw, Boudewijn Bakker, Henriette de Bruyn Kops, Ariane van Suchtelen, Arthur K. Wheelock (jr.), p. 170, cat.nr. 40
Saenredam : La fachada occidental de la iglesia de Santa Maria de Utrecht, Liesbeth M. Helmus, Gerdien Wuestman, p. 20, afb. 6
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 344, 345
Pieter Saenredam : de schilder in zijn tijd, Marten Jan Bok, Gary Schwartz, p. 178, 183, 189,242, cat.nr. 13
Pieter Saenredam : gefascineerd door gebouwen, Judikje Kiers

Persistent URL

To refer to this object please use the following persistent URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.5352

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