Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from an Important Private Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Emanuel de Witte

Interior of a Gothic Church with Figures

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February 1, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

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Property from an Important Private Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Emanuel de Witte

Alkmaar 1616 - 1691 Amsterdam

Interior of a Gothic Church with Figures


signed and dated upper left: 1689 / E. DE WITT

oil on panel

panel: 16 by 14 in.; 40.6 by 35.5 cm.

framed: 23 by 22 in.; 58.4 by 55.8 cm.

Dirk van D.Y.L, Amsterdam;

His sale, Amsterdam, H. Vinkeles, 10 January 1814, lot 169, for 5 ¼ francs;

Samuel Herman de Zoete (1810-1884), Pickhurst Mead, Hayes, by 1835;

His estate sale, London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 8 May 1885, lot 300;

Where acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (inv. no. 3612);

With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris;

From whom acquired by Albert Lehmann (1840-1922), Paris, 1891;

His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 12 June 1925, lot 295;

Where acquired by Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, for 10,000 francs;

From whom acquired by Ralph Harman Booth (1873-1931) and Mrs. Mary M. Booth (née Myrtle Mary Batterman, 1879-1951), Detroit and Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by 1926;

Thence by descent to the present collectors.

Winter Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London 1884, p. 29, cat. no. 135;

W.R. Valentiner, The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, Detroit 1926, n.p., cat. no. 26;

W.R. Valentiner, The Ninth Loan Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Detroit 1929, p. xviii, cat. no. 79;

E. Trautscholdt, "Emanuel de Witte," in Thieme-Becker, Kunstlerlexikon, 1947, p. 125, reproduced;

I. Manke, Emanuel de Witte 1617-1692, Amsterdam 1963, pp. 109-110, cat. no. 132;

B.G. Maillet, Intérieurs d’Églises: La peinture architecturale des Écoles du Nord 1580-1720, Wijnegem 2012, p. 497, cat. no. M-1916, reproduced.

London, Burlington House, Winter Exhibition, 7 January - 15 March 1884, no. 135;

Detroit, Institute of Arts, The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 22 March - 4 April 1926, no. 26;

Detroit, Institute of Arts, The Ninth Loan Exhibition, 16 October - 10 November 1929, no. 79;

Milwaukee Art Center, on long-term loan, 1973.