# Amsterdam: Street before Haarlem Tower [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HEYDEN, Jan van der]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on oak, 34 x 41 cm ## Commentary Many of van der Heyden's urban views are on the arid side, singularly detailed, seemingly recreating every single brick, as if painted after consulting a telescope or camera obscura. But this Amsterdam view is unusually open and free. Close to Vermeer in its brilliance and sense of surprise, this city view, like so many of the best Dutch landscapes, gives the sky its due, letting that eloquent void stress the intrusive, shabby character of urban sprawl. ## Related artworks - [A Palatial Garden]() - [Amsterdam, Dam Square with the Town Hall and the Nieuwe Kerk]() - [Approach to the Town of Veere]() - [Dam Square, Amsterdam]() - [Elegant Figures in the Grounds of a Baroque Palace]() - [Still-Life with Globe, Books and Chinese Silk]() - [Still-Life with Rarities]() - [The Drawbridge]() - [The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden \(View from the East\)]() - [The Huis ten Bosch at The Hague and Its Formal Garden \(View from the South\)]() - [The Martelaarsgracht in Amsterdam]() - [The New Town Hall in Amsterdam]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()