Interior of the New Church at Delft

Artist Hendrick van Vliet (Dutch, 1611 - 1675)

Dateca. 1660-1670

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 39 1/8 x 32 7/16 inches (99.38 x 82.39 cm)
Framed: 47 3/4 x 41 1/16 x 3 inches (121.29 x 104.3 x 7.62 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number70-17

SignedNone

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

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DescriptionInterior scene of a church; tall ceiling showing clerestory windows. Burial area at left enclosed in fence; contains two statues. Man and young boy with dog viewing this tomb. Three large pillars supporting vaulted ceiling in center and to right of center. A broom is leaning against the center pillar. Banners are hung from walls and pillars. Total eleven people and two dogs visible.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

No known exhibition history at this time.

Gallery Label

At the left of this image two figures stand before the tomb of William the Silent, a hero in the young Dutch Republic's recent struggle for independence from Spain. Located in Delft's New Church, the tomb was one of the most popular, venerated monuments of its time. The diamond-shaped boards hanging on the columns bear the family crests of those recently buried beneath the church floor, and the plaques hanging above the tomb represent guilds and local militia groups. True to the Dutch Protestant rejection of religious imagery and ostentatious decoration, the church spaces are simple yet elegant and contemplative, with clear, soft light penetrating long, enfolding shadow.

Provenance

With Newhouse Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1970;

Purchased from Newhouse by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1970.

Published References

Gazette des Beaux-Arts 77, no. 1225 (February 1971): 76, (repro.).

Michael Jaffé, “The Flemish and Dutch Schools,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 511, (repro). [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 43, (repro.)].

Ross E. Taggart and G.L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 5^th ed., vol. 1 (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 117, (repro).

E. Morris and M. Hopkinson, eds., Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: Foreign Catalogue (Liverpool: Merseyside County Council, 1977), 225, 291, (repro.).

Walter A. Liedtke, Architectural Painting in Delft (Doornspijk, Netherlands: Davaco, 1982), 109.

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington D.C.: The Netherlands – American Amity Trust, 1986), 126.

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