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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 436886, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome, Zinnie.</p><p>It has a 1930s feel to me, and could have been German made. Reverse glass painting is much more a Central European thing than a Dutch thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The subject seems to be inspired by Dutch windmills. The barges also look Dutch, but could be similar to other Northern European barges.</p><p>However, the dark blue shading suggests hills, which are rare in The Netherlands.</p><p><br /></p><p>In your title you mention Zaandam, a town in the province of North Holland.</p><p>The construction of a mill on top of another building looks a bit like &#039;De Huisman&#039;, a windmill which used to be located in Zaandam. This is what it looks like now, not original:</p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Zaanse_Schans_molen_De_Huisman.jpg/800px-Zaanse_Schans_molen_De_Huisman.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;De Huisman&#039; was moved to the open air museum of &#039;De Zaanse Schans&#039; along with other mills. It had become obsolete, and didn&#039;t fit in with city planning.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A spice warehouse was added. That was not the original construction though.</p><p>View from the water, current situation:</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/WLM_-_Minke_Wagenaar_-_09-09-04_De_Zaan_096.jpg/800px-WLM_-_Minke_Wagenaar_-_09-09-04_De_Zaan_096.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>At the time your painting was made, it looked like this:</p><p><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Molen_De_Huisman_met_schuren_aan_het_water%2C_van_opzij_gefotografeerd_-_Zaandam_-_20219051_-_RCE.jpg/800px-Molen_De_Huisman_met_schuren_aan_het_water%2C_van_opzij_gefotografeerd_-_Zaandam_-_20219051_-_RCE.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, the buildings in both versions are wood, not brick, as in your painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another Zaandam windmill, demolished ca 1916 (sources are not very clear about the date), the Oosterkattegatmolen. As far as I can see on old photos, the warehouse was also built of wood. Here it is on a painting by Monet:</p><p><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BulRrTLzLgM/VqCgWSCMh1I/AAAAAAAAIgg/8xLvgADm_6A/s320/Monet%2BZaandam%2BMolen%2BOosterkattegat%2BSothebys.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This windmill is still in Zaandam, &#039;De Gekroonde Poelenburg&#039;:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Ft0.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcS4N0LQ3nlZfQuHhKcTjEwEmRTle7fOwAsKMaQsf1EtNOELgsI&amp;sp=69279dceb88b35086ddd9880cb0362e4&amp;anticache=927844" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are other North Holland windmills with warehouses at &#039;De Zaanse Schans&#039;, but none of them look like yours. Which doesn&#039;t mean there never was a construction like on your painting.</p><p><img src="https://www.dezaanseschans.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/molen_banner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Just for fun, a Dutch windmill magazine. In Dutch, but some nice pictures:</p><p><a href="https://www.molenwereld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nr.-170-Mei-2013.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.molenwereld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nr.-170-Mei-2013.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.molenwereld.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nr.-170-Mei-2013.pdf</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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