Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Emanuel de Witte
(Dutch, about 1617–1691 or 1692)
about 1660-65
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions65.4 x 73 cm (25 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)
Framed: 90.8 x 98.7 x 9.5 cm (35 3/4 x 38 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Framed: 90.8 x 98.7 x 9.5 cm (35 3/4 x 38 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art
Accession number2021.721
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenancePossibly John Constable (b. 1776 – d. 1837), London; May 15-16, 1838, posthumous Constable sale, Foster and Sons, London, lot 7, sold to Farrer for 27 gns. [see note 1]. 1848, purchased by Francis Gibson (b. 1803 – d. 1859), Saffron Walden, Essex [see note 2]; to his son-in-law, Lewis Fry (b. 1832 – d. 1921), Bristol; to his son, Lewis George Fry (b. 1860); to his son, Dr. Lewis S. Fry, Delafords, Epping, Essex; by descent to his children; April 11, 1975, Children of Lewis S. Fry sale, Christie's, London, lot 34. April 19, 1985, anonymous ("property of a family trust") sale, Christie's, London, lot 90. 1985, Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, Coral Gables, FL [see note 3]; January 30, 1998, Ortiz-Patiño sale, Sotheby's, New York, lot 68, sold to Noortman Master Paintings [see note 4]; 1998, sold by Noortman to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA; 2021, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 15, 2021)
NOTES:
[1] As “Interior of a Cathedral, with Numerous Figures—a chef d’oeuvre.” According to Arts Council of Great Britain, Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century (London, 1945), cat. no. 40, this was “stated to have belonged to the painter John Constable.” Buyer information according to handwritten annotations in the catalogue. Farrer may refer to the London-based dealer Henry Farrer (b. 1798 - d. 1866).
[2] According to the Arts Council of Great Britain, Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century (London, 1945), cat. no. 40.
[3] According to Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America (The Hague, 1990), cat. no. 71.
[4] According to Frederick Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo (New Haven, 2011), cat. no. 66.
NOTES:
[1] As “Interior of a Cathedral, with Numerous Figures—a chef d’oeuvre.” According to Arts Council of Great Britain, Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century (London, 1945), cat. no. 40, this was “stated to have belonged to the painter John Constable.” Buyer information according to handwritten annotations in the catalogue. Farrer may refer to the London-based dealer Henry Farrer (b. 1798 - d. 1866).
[2] According to the Arts Council of Great Britain, Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century (London, 1945), cat. no. 40.
[3] According to Ben Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America (The Hague, 1990), cat. no. 71.
[4] According to Frederick Duparc, Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo (New Haven, 2011), cat. no. 66.
Marie Diéterle Van Marcke de Lummen
Pierre Cécile Puvis de Chavannes
about 1895
Jacob de Heusch
Hugues de Beaumont
Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg II
