De Handboogstraat in Amsterdam

From the Rijksmuseum record

They were called peintre-photographes: painters who took up photography as amateurs. One of them was Breitner, who owned various cameras. He used photography primarily to capture the dynamism of life on the street. He scoured the city all day long, recording figures and situations in thousands of photographs. Here he shot a woman and some children sitting on a flight of steps.