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Gerritt Berckheyde
The Town Hall, Amsterdam 1690
oil on canvas
52.8 × 62.6 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
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The Town Hall, Amsterdam
1690
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
52.8 × 62.6 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1920
Gallery location
Rembrandt Cabinet
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The sixth of seven children born to a butcher and his wife in Haarlem, Gerrit Berckheyde developed into one of the Golden Age’s most distinguished painters of city views. In the mid-1660s, Berckheyde began systematically to paint the architectural landmarks of both Haarlem and Amsterdam. While remaining a resident of Haarlem for his whole life, Berckheyde found it easy to travel the 19 kilometres that separated his home town from Amsterdam, probably using the hourly barge service that then connected the two cities. His many paintings of city views of Amsterdam were presumably created in the calm of his Haarlem studio, utilising drawings sketched during frequent trips to the capital.
Frame: Reproduction, 2005, based on a Dutch frame from 1695
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint l.l.: Gerrit Berckhëyde 1690 (dot above y)
Accession Number
1050-3
Department
International Painting
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Subjects (general)
Cityscapes Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
Amsterdam (inhabited place) Netherlands (nation) pedestrians public buildings (governmental buildings) royal palaces squares (open spaces) street scenes town halls
Frame
Reproduction, 2005, based on a Dutch frame from 1695
Frame
The former framing of Berckheyde The Town Hall, Amsterdam, 1690, acquired 1920, was a nineteenth century, gilded composition frame in a loosely French eighteenth century style.
The proposal to reframe the painting came with the cleaning of the painting in 2005.
The forward ogee profile frame in the manner of Dutch frames from the seventeenth century, was made from coachwood (pink sycamore) and stained to an ebonised finish.
The frame was fitted to the painting in 2005.
Frame Details
Framemaker
Reproduction - crafted by the NGV
Date
2005
Materials
Ebonised coachwood (pink sycamore)