RUISDAEL, Jacob Isaackszon van
(b. ca. 1628, Haarlem, d. 1682, Amsterdam)

The Dam Square in Amsterdam

c. 1670
Oil on canvas, 52 x 65 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Ruisdael moved to Amsterdam in 1650, and lived near the Dam, Amsterdam's great square, where he could have mingled with the fashionably dressed pedestrians. The Baroque weigh house is to the left of the painting.