Gezicht op de Prins Hendrikkade met de Nicolaaskerk 1890 - 1946

This is Cornelis Vreedenburgh’s pencil drawing of the Prins Hendrikkade with the Nicolaaskerk. Looking at the drawing, it feels like a fleeting impression, something caught on the go. I’m imagining Vreedenburgh with his sketchbook, maybe perched somewhere along the canal, quickly capturing the scene with layers of scribbled marks. It’s not about precision here, more about conveying a sense of place, the light hitting the water, the hustle of the city. You can almost feel the movement in the way the lines are laid down. There’s something quite vulnerable and intimate in the roughness of the marks. There’s an ongoing conversation between artists across time, a constant exchange of ideas and inspiration that continues to ripple and resonate through art history. Paintings show us that there’s never just one way of seeing the world, and that’s a beautiful thing.