- Artist
- Gerrit Berckheyde
- Year
- 1672
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 59.7 × 81 cm
The grandest stretch of Amsterdam’s Herengracht is seen from the west across the water, its double-fronted merchant mansions standing in crisp sunlit detail. Berckheyde painted this celebrated canal quarter repeatedly; here the patrician calm of seventeenth-century Amsterdam is fixed in a lucid, ordered cityscape.