Painting info: "in the present canvas berckheyde depicts a central location in amsterdam, specifically the canal that runs behind the town hall, the city’s most celebrated building and the symbol of its economic might. The canal, which opens up the composition and creates the spatial depth as it recedes, was covered over in 1884 to construct a street. On the left bank, which follows the curve of the canal, berckheyde has depicted the flower market set among trees with slender trunks. Here we see groups of standing and seated figures, making their purchases from the flowers and plants arranged on the ground in attractive pots. In the right in the middle distance is the town hall, designed by jacob van campen and built between 1648 and 1665, crowned with an octagonal tower with a dome. On the top of the tower is a sculpture of atlas holding up a celestial sphere by artus quellinus. The right bank of the canal creates a marked diagonal through the façades of the narrow houses with their stepped profiles and steep roofs. ". Object Type: painting. Genre: cityscape. Date: 1686. Dimensions: height: 54 cm (21.2 in); width: 64 cm (25.1 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal with the Flower Market, Amsterdam by Gerrit Berckheyde 1686
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