View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest.[1]
![Painting of a city scene with a river](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Jacob_van_Ruisdael_Vue_d%27Amsterdam.jpg/300px-Jacob_van_Ruisdael_Vue_d%27Amsterdam.jpg)
The painting is catalogue number 15 in the 1911 catalogue raisonné by art historian Hofstede de Groot. He wrote "The spectator looks towards the old Jachthaven and the Blaauwbrug, from the canal-bank where the Deaconesses' Home for Old Women was erected later." [2] The painting is catalogue number 2 in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.[1] Its inventory number for the Museum of Fine Arts is 4278 .[3]
Its dimensions are 52.5 cm x 43.5 cm.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Slive 2001, p. 15.
- ^ Hofstede de Groot 1911, p. 12.
- ^ "View of the Binnenamstel at Amsterdam". Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Retrieved 1 February 2016.
Bibliography
edit- Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis (1911). Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten Holländischen Mahler des XVII. Jahrhunderts [A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century] (in German). Vol. 4. Esslingen, Germany: Paul Neff. OCLC 2923803.
- Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-08972-1.