View of a Dutch City with the Schreierstoren in Amsterdam

1873

This view of a canal is not meant to replicate a specific place, but instead evokes the city of Amsterdam. Jacob Maris included distinct architectural details such as the Schreierstoren fortress, with its conical roof on the left, and a drawbridge in the distance from the Geldersekade canal. By integrating these sites into a quintessential Dutch cityscape—red brick buildings against an expansive cloud-filled sky—Maris developed a fictional scene that conveys the character of cities in the Netherlands. This tradition was also practiced by seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painters who combined various architectural monuments in single images to capture the overall impression of a place.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	14 9/16 x 22 3/8 in. (37 x 56.8 cm) Frame: 20 7/8 x 28 5/8 x 2 7/8 in. (53 x 72.7 x 7.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.803
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Jacob Henricus Maris, View of a Dutch City with the Schreierstoren in Amsterdam, 1873, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.803

Select Bibliography

Southampton (NY): Parrish Art Museum.. In Support of Liberty: European Paintings at the Pedestal Fund Art Loan Exhibition. June 29-Sept. 1, 1986; National Academy of Design, New York, Sept. 18-Dec. 7, 1986. Cat. by Maureen C. O'Brien. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Yvonne von Eekelen. G. H. Breitner: De Oorsprong van het moment. (Cat. of exh. June 7-July 2).. Der Haag: Panorama Mesdag.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

[Obach, London, in 1908]; S. von Denvies; James G. Shepherd, Scranton and New York (by 1913–d. 1935); Mrs. James G. Shepherd, New York, his wife, by inheritance (in 1935, her sale, American Art Association, New York, 7 Nov. 1935, no. 70, ill., sold to Woods); W. H. Woods (from 1935); [Parish-Watson, New York, consigned to Knoedler, Nov. 1938]; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 5 Jan. 1939]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.