Name: JAN DE BEIJER (1703-1780)
Brand: A view of the Grimburgwal with the Oudezijds Herenlogement, the gate of the Binnengasthuis beyond, Amsterdam
Price: 1600.00 GBP
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JAN DE BEIJER (1703-1780)
A view of the Grimburgwal with the Oudezijds Herenlogement, the gate of the Binnengasthuis beyond, Amsterdam
signed and dated 'JDB: 1755' (the letters interlaced)
pencil, pen and grey ink, grey wash, pencil framing lines, watermark fleur-de-lys above a shield
11¼ x 14⅝ in. (28.5 x 37.3 cm.)

G.J.G. Leonhardt (1901-1981) before 1953, and by inheritance to
Mrs G.E.A.M. Leonhardt-Pillz von Wernhof, Switzerland; Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 November 1989, lot 179.
with Ariëns Kappers, from whom acquired in 1999 by
Dr J.A.M. Smit (1935-2006).

H. Romers, J. de Beijer oeuvre-catalogus, The Hague, 1969, p. 81, no. 967
H. Romers, J. de Beijer, Achttiende eeuwse gezichten van steden, dorpen en huizen, Alphen an den Rijn, 1987, no. 967.

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Jan de Beijer en Amsterdam 1703-1785, 1953, no. 29.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Amsterdam in tekening Verzameling Leonhardt, 1962, no. 46.

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There are two other versions of this view executed by de Beijer; one smaller version in watercolour and one in grey wash both in the Stadsarchief Amsterdam (inv. nos. 010001000449 and ANWU01393000001). The latter must have been the model for Caspar Philips Jacobsz. etching of the subject, published by Isaak Tirion in 1765, as the staffage matches.
From right to left, the three buildings seen on the right bank are the two warehouses Sint Pieter and Het Wapen van Amsterdam and the Oudezijds Herenlogement, a fashionable inn built in 1647 that housed Tsar Peter the Great (1672-1725) during his visit in 1697. Sadly, all three buildings were demolished in 1874 to allow for the expansion of the Binnengasthuis. The house depicted on the left is the Huis aan de drie grachten, so named because it is surrounded on three sides by canals. Originally built in circa 1610, the building still stands today, and was the site of a clandestine publishing house that produced forbidden literature during the Nazi occupation of Holland.