View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam (Mauritshuis)

View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

It gives a bird's eye view of the crowd watching the parade of the civic guard on the Dam Square, the main square of Amsterdam.

[1] Based on the absence of dairy farmers in the market, the flag of the House of Orange, and the style of painting Slive states that the undated painting was made in the late 1670s.

One is in the Frick Collection in New York; the other View of the Dam and Damrak at Amsterdam is in the collection of Museum Boymans van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

[4] The painting is on long-term loan to the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, since 1999.