View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk

View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk

Artist	Jacob van Ruisdael
Year	1680
Dimensions	53.4 cm × 67.6 cm (21.0 in × 26.6 in)
Location	Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
Website	Amsterdam Collection online

View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk (c. 1680) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.

This painting was purchased in 2007 with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt as an important artifact of Amsterdam history.^[1] It was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1911, who wrote; "17. View of Amsterdam. The Amstel fills the right-hand side of the picture. In the centre is a canal bordered by a meadow. A ray of light illumines the town. In the sky are masses of storm-cloud. Canvas. Sale. Comte de Morny, Paris, May 24, 1852, No. 24 (3100 francs)."^[2]

According to Vereniging Rembrandt, the steeples in this painting are from left to right: Leidsepoort, Utrechtsepoort, Westerkerk, Stadhuis (Dam), Oude Kerk, Zuiderkerk, Portugees-Joodse Synagoge, 's Lands zeemagazijn, Weesperpoort, Oosterkerk. All of these buildings had been recently designed and built under the supervision of the city architect Daniël Stalpaert.

This scene is very similar to other paintings Ruisdael made in this period of Amsterdam and these often served as inspiration for later painters of landscape.

References

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↑ Information on Vereniging Rembrandt website
↑ Entry 17 for ''View of Amsterdam in Hofstede de Groot, 1911

View of Amsterdam from the South in the RKD
Information on Sotheby's website

Works by Jacob van Ruisdael

List of paintings

Paintings	Wooded Dunes Landscape with a Cottage and Trees View of Bentheim Castle Rough Sea at a Jetty Storm Off a Sea Coast Landscape with a Windmill near a Town Moat View of Egmond aan Zee Two Watermills and an Open Sluice near Singraven Dune Landscape near Haarlem Bentheim Castle (Dublin) Two Water Mills with an Open Sluice View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam A Thatch-Roofed House with a Water Mill The Watermill The Arrival of Cornelis de Graeff and Members of His Family at Soestdijk, His Country Estate A Waterfall in a Rocky Landscape The Jewish Cemetery The Ray of Light A Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Church A Wooded Marsh Waterfall in a Mountainous Landscape with a Ruined Castle Landscape with Waterfall View of Haarlem from the Northwest, with the Bleaching Fields in the Foreground View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam Frick Collection Boymans van Beuningen Mauritshuis Panoramic view of the Amstel looking toward Amsterdam¨ Mountain Landscape with a Watermill Winter Landscape near Haarlem Winter View of the Hekelveld in Amsterdam View of Haarlem with Bleaching Fields Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede View on the Amstel from Amsteldijk

Etchings	Grainfield at the Edge of a Wood Forest Marsh with Travellers on a Bank

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