LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on oak panel

Measurements:

15.55 in. (39.50 cm.) (height) by 19.49 in. (49.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Guildhall Art Gallery, Catalogue of the exhibition of a selection of works by early and modern painters of the Dutch school , 28 April - 25 July 1903, no. 140 (as Berckheyde);. Haarlem Frans Hals Museum, on loan 1933-1945 (here and in all subsequent exhibitions as Saenredam);. Rotterdam, Museum Boymans, Catalogus, schilderijen en teekeningen Pieter Jansz Saenredam 1597-1665, 24 December 1937 - 1 February 1938, no. 4;. Amsterdam, Fodor Museum, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 15 February - 20 March 1938, no. 4;. London, Ontario, University of West Ontario, McIntosh Memorial Gallery, Loan exhibition: 17th Century Dutch Masters , 20 February - 20 March 1954;. Oslo, National Gallery, Fra Rembrandt til Vermeer, 9 October - 6 December 1959, no. 65;. Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Collectie J.C.H. Heldring te Oosterbeek, 1960, no. 33;. Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 15 September - 3 December 1961, no. 86;. The Hague, Mauritshuis, 11 October 2008 - 11 January 2009, Washington D.C., The National Gallery of Art, 1 February - 3 May 2009, Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, no. 39.

Literature:

as Saenredam);. P.T.A. Swillens, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, schilder van Haarlem, 1597-1665, Amsterdam 1935, pp. 9, 59, cat. no. 226, reproduced fig. 56;. N.S. Trivas, "Pieter Saenredam," in Apollo, 1938, vol. XXVII, p. 155, cat. no. 155;. S.J. Gudlaugsson, "Aanvullingen omtrent Pieter Post's werkzaamhedenp als schilder," in Oud-Holland, 1954, vol. LXIX, esp. 68, reproduced p. 67, fig. 11 (figures by Pieter Post);. Weltkunst, 15 September 1960, reproduced p. 8;. M.E. Houtzager (ed.), Catalogue raisonné of the works by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam: published on the occasion of the exhibition Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Eng. ed., Utrecht 1961, pp. 129-32, reproduced pl. 88;. G. Schwartz and M.J. Bok, Pieter Saenredam, The Painter and His Time, New York 1989, pp. 51, 57, 59, 83, 169, 189, 244, 266, cat. no. 86, reproduced p. 59, fig. 60;. A. van Suchtelen, in A. van Suchtelen & A.K. Wheelock, Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age, exhibition catalogue, Zwolle 2008, pp. 166-170, 235, no. 39, reproduced.; G. K. Nagler, Neues Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, 1845, vol. XVI, p. 80 (here and in all subsequent; G. K. Nagler, Neues Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, 1845, vol. XVI, p. 80 (here and in all subsequent

Provenance:

Johannes Enschedé, Haarlem, probably by 1753, and circa 1765 (according to Nagler, see Literature);. His deceased sale, Haarlem, 30 May 1786, lot 11 (as "P.Saanredam 1630");. Pieter Cornelis, Baron van Leyden (died 1788), Amsterdam;. Thence by descent to his son, Diderick van Leyden (died 1811);. His sale, Paris, Paillet et Delaroche, 5 July 1804 (postponed to 5-7 November), lot 81 (as Saenredam, 1630);. Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, De Vries, 24 April 1838, lot 50 (as Saenredam), to Chapuis;. Sir Maziere Brady, 1st Bart. (died 1871), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Dublin;. By whose Estate sold, London, Christie's, 1 July 1871, lot 123 (as Berckheyde);. There acquired by Henry George Bohn (died 1884), North End House, Twickenham, Middlesex;. His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 20 March 1885, lot 189 (as G. Berckheyde, "from the Hon. F. Byng's Collection");. There acquired by Henry Louis Bischoffsheim, Bute House, London (died 1908);. With Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, 1927 (as Berckheyde);. Frits Lugt (died 1970), Rustenhove, Maartensdijk, until November 1931;. P. Lugt, Brussels (lent to the Haarlem Museum 1933-45, as Saenredam);. With J.R. Bier, Haarlem;. M. Franck, New York, 1949-51;. With Wildenstein, New York, by 1954;. From whom acquired by J.C.H. Heldring, Oosterbeek, 1959;. His deceased sale, London, Sotheby's, 27 March 1963, lot 18, for £12,000 to Drey;. Mrs. Drey, London;. By whose son anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London Sotheby's, 12 December 1984, lot 62 (when catalogued by Neil Maclaren);. There acquired by Linda and Gerald Guterman;. Their sale, New York, Sotheby's, 14 January 1988, lot 34;. With Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht, from whom acquired by the present collector..