Emanuel de Witte
Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft
c. 1650-5248.3 x 34.5 cm
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace, Virgilia and Walter C. Klein, The Walter C. Klein Foundation, Edwin Weisl Jr., and Frank E. Richardson Gifts, and Bequest of Theodore Rousseau and Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, by exchange, 2001
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Manke 18
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 222
Exhibitions
2017 Emanuel de Witte 1616/17-1691/92. Meester van het licht, Nr. 5
2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 91
Provenance
Samuel Sandars, London, by 1879
his daughter, Mrs. Thornton-Lawes, London, until 1931
sale, Christie's, London, 12 June, 1931, no. 46, to Partridge
Dr. C.J.K. van Aalst, Hoevelaken, the Netherlands, by 1939
his grandson, until 1982, sold to Cramer Oude Kunst
with Cramer Oude Kunst, The Hague, from 1982
with Galerie Hoogsteder, The Hague, until 1983, sold to Hornstein
Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1983–2001
sold through Otto Naumann to MMA
Other works by Emanuel de Witte
Interior of a Protestant Church
1677
1677
The New Fish Market in Amsterdam
1678
1678
Courtyard of the Exchange in Amsterdam
1653
1653
Choir of the Janskerk, Utrecht
1654
1654
The Grave of Michiel de Ruyter in the Nieuwe kerk, Amsterdam
1683
1683