MINDERHOUT, Hendrik van
(b. 1632, Rotterdam, d. 1696, Antwerpen)

Extensive View of a City

1650-55
Oil on canvas, 93 x 122 cm
Private collection

The painting depicts an extensive view of the roads of a city with a large flute, a small cargo ship, a kaag and other shipping moored, together with an elegant couple and other figures standing in the foreground. It is a capriccio based on the actual roads of the cities of Amsterdam and Antwerp.