LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Measurements:
12.01 in. (30.50 cm.) (height) by 12.20 in. (31.00 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and dated 'Pieter Saenredam fe Ao 1658.' (lower left, on the base of the pillar)
Condition:
In a Dutch, ebony, cassetta frame, circa 1600 (supplied by Wiggins, ref. 12945).
Exhibited:
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Saenredam, 1597-1665. Peintre des églises, 31 January-15 March 1970, no. 18. Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Art dealer and collector. 4th international exhibition, 27 March-31 May 1970, no. 50.
Literature:
O.H. Dijkstra, 'P.J. Saenredam, De noordwest-hoek van de Nieuwe Kerk te Haarlem', Jaarboek Vereniging Haerlem, 1972, pp. 99-101, illustrated. W.A. Liedtke, 'The New Church in Haarlem series. Saenredam's sketching style in relation to perspective', Simiolus, 8, 1975-6, pp. 145-6, fig. 2. G.D. Schwartz and M.J. Bok, Pieter Saenredam. The painter and his time, The Hague, 1990, pp. 222, 225-6, 264 and 332, no. 81a, fig. 238 (chapter 15, note 9). J. Giltaij and G.M.C. Jansen, Perspectives. Saenredam and the architectural painters of the 17th century, Rotterdam, 1991, p. 129, under no. 20. E. Schavemaker, One Hundred Master Paintings, Zwolle, 2007, pp. 262-5, no. 58.
Provenance:
(Possibly) bought from the artist by Adriaen Backer (Amsterdam 1635/6-1684), Haarlem, and (probably) by descent to his son,. Adriaen Backer (d. 1739), Haarlem, who married Anna Catharina van der Camer in 1698. Dirk van Dijl (1742-1814), painter, Amsterdam; his sale, Vinkeles, Amsterdam, 10 January 1814, lot 139, as 'P. Saanreadam, Een Protestansche Kerk van binnen te zien, gestoffeerd met twee beelden, uitvoerig gepenceeld, hoog 13½, breed 11½ duim' (The interior of a Protestant Church with two figures, extensively painted, 13½ x 11½ inches),(fl. 6,50 to [Adriaan or Jan] de Lelie). Adriaan de Lelie (1755-1820), painter, Amsterdam, or his son Jan Adriaan Antoine de Lelie (1788-1845), art-dealer, Amsterdam. Munk collection; his sale, Van der Schley, Amsterdam, 16 October 1815, lot 94, as 'Eene met Beeldjes gestoffeerde Protestanten Kerk van binnen. Zonachtig, Zonachtig, op P. door P.J. Saenredam, h. 13, br. 12 d.' (The interior of a Protestant Church with figures, Sunny, on panel, 13 x 12 inches), (fl. 14,5 to the following),. With Willem Gruijter (1763-1831), Amsterdam. Private collection, since 1961. with The Brod Gallery, London, by 1970. Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 90 ($1,856,000 to the following),. with Noortman, Maastricht, from whom acquired, on 30 May 2004, by. Pieter and Olga Dreesmann (inventory no. B19).