A View of Saint Pantaleon in Cologne

Jan van der Heyden (Dutch, 1637–1712)

Medium/TechniqueOil on panel

Dimensions39.4 × 58.4 cm (15 1/2 × 23 in.)

Credit LinePromised gift of Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, in support of the Center for Netherlandish Art

Accession numberL-T 198.3.2022

On View

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceOctober 7-8, 1771, possibly Johan Balthasar Krauht and others sale, The Hague, lot 37, to Furet for 310 fl. [see note 1]. Elisabeth Hooft Valckenier (b. 1717 - d. 1796), Amsterdam; August 31, 1796, Hooft sale, Amsterdam, lot 13, to Van der Vinne for 1210 fl. [see note 2]. December 14, 1829, possibly Margaretha Gysberta, Baroness van Brakell sale, Amsterdam, lot 25, sold for fl. 1000 to Brondgeest. By 1834, Maria Hoofman (b. 1776 - d. 1845), Haarlem; 1846, probably sold from the Hoofman collection to Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys (dealer, b. 1799 - d. 1883), Amsterdam, and taken to England [see note 3]. By 1876, Henry Bingham Mildmay (b. 1828 - d. 1905), London [see note 4]; June 24, 1893, Bingham Mildmay sale, Christie's, London, lot 22, sold for £1100 to Brett, for Johann II (b. 1840 - d. 1929), Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna; by inheritance through Franz I (b. 1853 - d. 1938), Prince of Liechtenstein to Franz Josef II (b. 1906 - d. 1989), Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz; after 1948, sold from the Princes of Liechtenstein collection [see note 5]. By 1962 until at least 1967, John Cotton, Birmingham, England [see note 6]. July 10, 1968, anonymous ("Property of a Trust") sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 10, to Callow for £23,000. 1968, Herman Shickman Gallery, New York [see note 7]. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ferkauf, New York; July 7, 1972, Ferkauf and others sale, Christie's, London, lot 93 to "Ironside" (Herman Shickman Gallery, New York) [see note 8]. Private collection. 2006, sold by Noortman Master Paintings, London, to Susan and Matthew Weatherbie, Boston.

NOTES:
[1] As the view of various buildings in a city, on panel, 15 x 23. According to C. Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8 (London, 1927), p. 381, cat. no. 174, this painting is identical with the panel in the 1796 sale of Elizabeth Hooft.

[2] Attributed in the catalogue to J. van der Heyde[n] and A. van de Velde; the painting was attributed to both artists through its sale in 1893. The title page of the 1796 auction catalogue notes that the seller was the widow of Wouter Valckenier (b. 1705 - d. 1784).

[3] John Smith, Catalogue Raisonné if the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 5 (London, 1834), cat. no. 106, "now in the collection of Mademoiselle Hoffman [sic], Haarlem." When this painting was sold in 1893, it was identified as the Hoofman picture. Maria Hoofman inherited parts of her collection from her father, Jacob Hoofman (d. 1799), and following her death, much of the collection was sold en bloc to the dealer Nieuwenhuys.

[4] Lent to the Royal Academy, London, in 1876 (as "Street View", 16 x 23 in.), according to Algernon Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions (London, 1914), vol. 4, p. 1473. Hofstede de Groot, 1927 (as above, n. 1), p. 387, cat. no. 194, identifies the Mildmay picture with paintings by Van der Heyden sold at auction in London in 1852, 1876, and 1877. It is not possible to identify any of these with present painting, especially since Mildmay was already the owner by 1876.

[5] In the exhibition catalogue "Meisterwerke aus den Sammlungen des Fürsten von Liechtenstein" (Lucerne, Kunstmuseum, June 5 - October 31, 1948), p. 44, cat. no. 185, the painting is said to have been acquired at the 1893 Bingham Mildmay auction. It was inventory no. 909 in the Liechtenstein collection.

[6] According to Peter Sutton, Jan van der Heyden (exh. cat., Bruce Museum, 2006), p. 156, cat. no. 21, he lent it to the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery between 1962 and 1967.

[7] Exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Paintings (H. Shickman Gallery, New York, November 1968), cat. no. 3.

[8] That Shickman was the purchaser is according to Sutton 2006 (as above, n. 6).