route taken by the notary and his clerks to inventorize the objects in the house upon Pieter de Graeff's death (images author)
Pieter de Graeff's probate inventory and complementary pieces of information extracted from his almanacs allow us to reconstruct the inner spatial layout of the Herengracht house. Read more on the reconstruction process and its degrees of certainty in:
C. Piccoli, 'Methodological section: Creating the 3D reconstruction of the house', part of W. Li and C. Piccoli, 'Placing Value in Domestic Interiors. 3D Spatial Mapping of Pieter de Graeff’s and Jacoba Bicker’s Home Art Collection', BMGN, vol. 139 no. 2 (2024), pp. 4-37.
Written by Chiara Piccoli