Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam

1686

Emanuel de Witte Dutch, ca. 1617-between 1691 and 1692

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

The subject of this impressive composition is the Oude Kerk — the majestic church that was also Amsterdam’s oldest building. Capturing the magnificent architecture bathed in light, Emanuel De Witte also celebrated the spiritual character of this house of worship, as parishioners of all ages and genders listen intently to the words of the preacher at the pulpit in the background. Founded around 1213 and consecrated in 1306 by the bishop of Utrecht, the Oude Kerk became a Calvinist church in 1578. Rembrandt van Rijn was a frequent visitor to the Oude Kerk, and his children were christened here. De Witte, a prominent architectural artist, made no fewer than thirty-eight paintings of the church.

Title Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam

Artwork Date 1686

Artist Emanuel de Witte

Life Dates ca. 1617-between 1691 and 1692

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

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Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 47 × 39 5/8 inches (119.4 × 100.6 cm) Framed: 56 1/8 × 48 3/4 × 4 1/2 inches (142.6 × 123.8 × 11.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 37.1

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Signed Signed and dated, left center at base of railing: E. de Witte fe 1686, Octobre 1.

Provenance

E. Williamson (Selbourne, England);
1936, (D. Katz, Dieren, Netherlands);
1936-1937, (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
January 1937-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Tentoonstelling. Sales. cat., D. Katz. Nijmegen, 1936, cat. 72.

The Great Dutch Masters. Sales cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1936, cat. 21 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "Architectural Painting in the Netherlands." Bulletin of the DIA 16, no. 7 (1937): pp. 106-113 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "De Witte and the Imaginative Nature of Dutch Art." Art Quarterly 1, no. 1 (1938): pp 5-16, 56 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p.145, no. 798.

Trautscholdt, E. "Emanuel de Witte." Thieme Becker, Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 36. 1947, pp. 121-127.

Manke, I. Emanuel de Witte 1617-1692. Amsterdam, 1963, pp. 57, 88, no. 46, pl. 108.

Greenleaf, William. From These Beginnings: The Early Philanthropies of Henry and Edsel Ford, 1911–1936. Detroit, 1964, p. 163.

Davies, A.I. 16th-and 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Springfield, 1993, p. 152, under cat. 25.

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 10, 46, 47 (ill.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 268-269.

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Emanuel de Witte, Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, 1686, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edsel B. Ford Fund, 37.1.