The Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of Willem the Silent

ca. between 1650 and 1651

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

Title The Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of Willem the Silent

Artwork Date ca. between 1650 and 1651

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

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Overall: 27 × 19 inches (68.6 × 48.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Dr. C. J. K. van Aalst

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. 37.152

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Marks Seal, on verso: Bureau de Strasbourg

Provenance

(Strasbourg, France).
Hohenzollern-Hechingen (Löwenberg, Germany);
C.J.K. van Aalst (Hoevelaken, Netherlands);
1937-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Parthey, G., Deutscher Bildersaal, vol. 2, Berlin, 1864, no. 9, p. 792.

Pflugk-Hartung, Repertorium, vol. 8, 1885, p. 87.

Wurzbach, A. von, Niederländische Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 2, Vienna, 1911, no. 894.

Richardson, E. P., De Witte and the imaginative Nature of Dutch Art", Art Quarterly, vol. 1, 1938, pp. 5-16, 56 (cited on p. 56).

Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 17, Feb., 1938, p. 40 (cited in 1937 annual report).

Richardson, E. P., "The Tomb of William the Silent, by Emanuel de Witte", Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 21, no. 7, 1942, pp 62-64 (ill.).

Richardson, E. P (ed.), Detroit, DIA, Catalogue of Paintings, 1944, p.146, no. 799.

Manke, I., Emanuel de Witte 1617-1692, Amsterdam, 1963, pp. 84-85, no. 26a.

Liedtke, W. A., Architectural Painting in Delft. Gerard Houckgeest, Hendrick van Vliet, Emanuel de Witte, Doornspijk, 1982, pp. 49-51; 81; 101, cat. 11a, fig. 22 (as de Witte after a lost composition by Houckgeest).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art--London, National Gallery, "Vermeer and the Delft School", 2001, p. 438, cited under cat. 93 (exh. organized by W. Liedtke).

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Die Sammlungen der Hamburger Kunsthalle, vol. II, Die Niederländischen Gemälde 1500-1800, Hamburg, 2001, p. 316 (cited under inv. 203).

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts, London, 2004, pp. 270-271 (entry by A. K. Wheelock, Jr.)

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after Emanuel de Witte, The Nieuwe Kerk at Delft with the Tomb of Willem the Silent, ca. between 1650 and 1651, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Dr. C. J. K. van Aalst, 37.152.