# Extensive View of a City

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 93 x 122 cm

## Commentary

The painting depicts an extensive view of the roads of a city with a large flute, a small cargo ship, a kaag and other shipping moored, together with an elegant couple and other figures standing in the foreground. It is a capriccio based on the actual roads of the cities of Amsterdam and Antwerp.

## Related artworks

- [A Levantine Harbour](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/a-levantine-harbour-r9f54a771b7dcae>)
- [A Mediterranean Harbour Scene](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/a-mediterranean-harbour-scene-r68ea897444dee9>)
- [Extensive Rhenish Landscape](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/extensive-rhenish-landscape-rb8346cd52ba21c>)
- [The Battle of Lowestoft](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/the-battle-of-lowestoft-rc20baf9219a80a>)
- [The Handelskom at Bruges](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/minderhout-hendrik-van-rda38dd98a2b09a/the-handelskom-at-bruges-r90a99561717464>)

## Attribution

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