Master Paintings Part II
Master Paintings Part II
Property from a Connecticut Collection
Delft, a view with the Nieuwe Kerk at center and the Oude Kerk at left
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May 26, 02:18 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
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Property from a Connecticut Collection
Dutch School, 17th century, Monogrammist C.S.G.
Delft, a view with the Nieuwe Kerk at center and the Oude Kerk at left
signed with monogram lower right: CSG
oil on panel
panel: 28 by 42 ⅜ in.; 71.1 by 107.6 cm. (with 1/4 inch wooden additions to the upper and lower edges)
framed: 33 ½ by 47 ¼ in.; 85.1 by 120 cm.
Although the identity of the artist who painted this panoramic view of Delft remains to be identified, the panel is signed in the lower right with the monogram CSG . This anonymous artist seems to have been active in the mid-late seventeenth century possibly around the region of Rotterdam. Another panel similarly monogrammed CSG but showing the River Maas with a view of Rotterdam is today in the collection of the Rotterdam Museum.1
This particular view of Delft looks northeast from an area along the Delftse Schie. Rising from the center is the Nieuwe Kerk, just to the left of which is the Delft City Hall (Stadhuis) followed by the Oude Kerk. The present view is similar to that recorded in a print by Joost van Geel of about 1666 that was published as part of a series of maps recording the Maas River and the cities along it, entitled Rotterodamum Hollandiae urbs celeberrima et situ portibusque mercaturae opportunissima.2
1. Inv. no. 10822, oil on panel, 71 by 107.8 cm.
2. See an example in the Rijksmuseum, inv. no. RP-P-OB-67.676.