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Rijksmuseum

79 works

Oil portrait of a seated man in a white wig at a cluttered desk with books, papers, a quill and a hanging map.

Portrait of Jan Wagenaar, City Historian of Amsterdam

Tibout Regters, 1761

Painting of a Dutch canal town with a domed church, gabled brick houses, boats on the water and strolling figures.

The turning basin in the canal in Leidschendam

Paulus Constantijn la Fargue, 1756

Painting of a sunlit cobbled square with a Romanesque church, a stone well, a horse cart and figures in period dress.

Imaginary Cityscape with Romanesque Church

Johannes Huibert Prins, 1793

Oil painting of a Gothic church and a crowned classical civic building on Amsterdam's Dam with strollers and a carriage.

The New Church and the City Hall on the Dam in Amsterdam

Isaac Ouwater, c. 1780 - c. 1790

Venetian canal scene with gondolas, a domed church and the Punta della Dogana tower under a pale blue sky.

The Entrance to the Canal Grande at the Punta della Dogana and the Santa Maria della Salute

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1730

Oil painting of the Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, gondolas and figures in boats under a pale sky.

The Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge and the Fondaco dei Tedeschi

Unknown artist, 1707 - 1750

Hand-colored view of a canal bridge and clock tower in Amsterdam, with gabled houses and boat masts under clouds.

View of the Tower called Jan Roodenpoortstoren and the Singel Canal in Amsterdam

Jonas Zeuner, 1770 - 1814

Painting of Venice's Grand Canal with the Rialto Bridge, gondolas and sailboats in the water, and palazzo facades.

The Canal Grande with the Ponte Rialto and the Fondaco dei Tedeschi

Giovanni Antonio Canal, 1707

Venetian canal scene with gondolas and rowers before domed churches and palazzi under a pale sky.

Entrance to the Grand Canal near the Punta della Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Unknown artist, 1730 - 1745

Painting of an Amsterdam canal house garden with a fountain, a woman with a parrot, and a man on a ladder pruning a hedge.

An Amsterdam Canal House Garden

Cornelis Troost, 1740

Panoramic painting of a harbor city with ships on a strait, domed mosques, and red-roofed buildings under a warm sky.

View of Constantinople (Istanbul) and the Seraglio from the Swedish Legation in Pera

Antoine van der Steen, 1770

Painting of a regatta on the Grand Canal in Venice, with boats and crowds gathered under the Rialto Bridge.

Regatta on the Grand Canal, near the Rialto Bridge, Venice

Francesco Guardi, 1780

Winter street scene with brick houses, a church tower, children and a dog in the snow, by Dirk Jan van der Laan.

City View in the Winter

Dirk Jan van der Laan, 1790

Hand-coloured engraved New Year greeting card with Dutch script, rococo border, and a street scene of figures and a horse car

Greeting card with various figures on the street

weduwe Jeronimus Ratelband en Johannes Bouwer, 1767

Engraved rococo oval frame with flower baskets above, and street figures in 18th-century dress along the bottom edge.

Wish letter with activities on the street

Jacobus Rijckhoff, 1738

Hand-coloured print of sixteen fairground scenes with acrobats, a bear, a horse, dancing dogs and a puppet show.

The street fair / The acrobats

Philippus Jacobus Brepols, 1800

Engraved rococo frame with statues and a street scene of townhouses, pedestrians, a horse and a dog.

Wish letter with various figures on the street

weduwe Jeronimus Ratelband en Johannes Bouwer, 1767

Pen drawing of a Batavia street scene with a canal, trees, and figures, plus a row of standing figures below.

Street scenes Batavia

Jan Brandes, 1779

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Hand-coloured print with calligraphic verse in a Rococo border, showing women in dresses walking before a town skyline.

Wish letter with a group of women on the street

weduwe Jeronimus Ratelband en Johannes Bouwer, 1767

Pen and grey wash drawing of a Batavia street scene with crowded figures, a bare tree, and a carriage on blank paper.

Street scene Batavia

Jan Brandes, 1779

Etching of a harbor with a large warehouse, moored ships, rowing boat and dockworkers handling barrels on the quay.

Cityscape with naval warehouse and harbor with ships in Amsterdam

Cornelis Brouwer, 1780

Engraving of armed militiamen marching over a drawbridge toward a city gate, with a man in a hat at the far end.

Hendrick Jansz. Ackerman leads a company of militiamen out of the city

Barent de Bakker, 1782

Engraved street scene of a man with a box, two boys and a leaping dog, with sedan chairs and bearers on a cobbled street.

In a street two boys point at a man

Reinier Vinkeles, 1788

Print of a wooden footbridge, moored rowboat and farmhouse beside a canal with reeds and a tall pole.

Small bridge near a ditch

Hermanus Numan, 1754

Pencil drawing of a mountain landscape with a stone bridge, a watermill by a cliff, and a horse and cart near water.

Mountain landscape with water mill and stone bridge

Johannes van Reijn, 1800

Engraved view of a naval battle with sailing warships and smoke near a fortified town on a shoreline, with a numbered key bel

Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1659

Daniël Vrijdag, 1775

Engraving of a raised drawbridge over a canal, with a rowing boat, a church tower and houses behind.

Drawbridge over a canal

Hermanus Numan, 1754

Watercolor landscape of a river with a footbridge, a thatched cottage, small figures on a rise, and a stormy sky.

Figures by a bridge over a river

Johannes van Reijn, 1800

Engraving of a naval battle with many sailing ships before a fortified town, framed by two cherubs and a numbered key.

Capture of the city of Nyborg by Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, 1659

Bernard Picart, 1718