LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

46.26 in. (117.50 cm.) (height) by 37.01 in. (94.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

J.S. Gudlaugsson, "Een kerk interieur van Hendrick van Streeck," in Kunsthistorisches Mededelingen I, 1946, pp. 50-51, reproduced fig. 2;; I. Manke, Emmanuel de Witte 1617-1692, Amsterdam 1963, p. 146, no. 341 (as H. van Streek);; C. Wright, Paintings in Dutch Museums. An Index of Oil Paintings in Public Collections in the Netherlands by Artists born before 1870, London 1980, p. 503 (as Emanuel de Witte?);; Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlandish Office for the Fine Arts), Old Master Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, The Hague 1992, p. 321, no. 2858, reproduced (as Emanuel de Witte);; B. Schwarz, Hitlers Museum. Die Fotoalben Gemäldegalerie Linz: Dokumente zum Führermuseum, Vienna, Cologne and Weimar 2004, pp. 115 and 245, no. IV/41a, reproduced (as Emanuel de Witte).;

Provenance:

Thomas Coates, York House, Kensington; By whose executors sold, London, Christie's, 19 January 1884, lot 36 (as de Witte), where acquired for £5 10s by "Garcia"; Mrs. Younger, London; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 21 December 1923, lot 35 (as Job Adriaensz. Berckheyde), where acquired for 273 guineas by Duits; With Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1923; With Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, 1924; From whom forcibly acquired by Hitler's agents in 1940 for the Linz Museum collection (no. 1276, as Emanuel de Witte); Recovered by Allied Forces in October 1945 and sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (no. 9034, as Emanuel de Witte); Given over to the Nederlands Kunstbezit, The Hague, 1947; Restituted to the Heir of Jacques Goudstikker, February 2006; By whom sold (Old Master Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker), Amsterdam, Christie's, 14 November 2007, lot 47.;