The New Town Hall in Amsterdam
by HEYDEN, Jan van der, Oil on canvas, 73 x 86 cm
This is the second version of the same subject that he completed shortly after the first painting. (The first is in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.) Here the viewpoint is somewhat further to the right and the perspective is different; the foreshortening of the Town Hall’s fa�ade is less pronounced, and the lantern’s distortion - too strong in the first version - has been corrected.