View of the Utrechtsepoort in Amsterdam, 1790 – 1800

Blatt: 187 x 270 mm

Physical Description: Watercolour (with increased proportion of binding agent in the dark brown areas), over black graphite (?)

Inventory Number: 2989

Object Number: 2989 Z

Status: Request for presentation in the study room of the Prints and Drawings Department

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About the Work

After the manner of his teacher Paulus van Liender ("Lisse near Haarlem" (Inv.-Nr. 3305)), Schouten set the seventeenth-century town gate of Amsterdam among densely spaced trees. By depicting a little wooden hut in the foreground, he created a contrast to that edifice, which is massive and stately but here somewhat subdued in its impact. The artist furnished this late example of a topographic drawing with a narrow, drawn frame, an indication that the work was intended for pasting into an album.