Rijksmuseum

Object data

pen and brown ink, with red, black and white chalk, on blue paper; framing line in black ink

height 300 mm × width 395 mm

Inscriptions

signed, dated and inscribed by the artist: lower right, in brown ink, Anno 1650 den 23 Júniús van mij P:r Saenredam geteijckent, in de Nieuwe kerck binnen / Haerlem
inscribed on verso: centre, in pencil, 9; lower left, in black ink, No 1003.; above that, in graphite, No 110
stamped on verso: lower left, with the mark of Pitcairn Knowles (L. 2643); lower centre, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

Watermark: None

Condition

A few thin spots

Provenance

…; sale, Aarnhout Jacobus van Eyndhoven (1805-61, Zutphen) and J. Werneck (?-1893, Frankfurt am Main), Amsterdam (F. Muller), 23 June 1885 sqq., no. 259, fl. 45, to William Pitcairn Knowles (1820-94), Rotterdam and Wiesbaden (L. 2643);¹ his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 (26) June 1895 sqq., no. 578, fl. 48, to the dealer H.J. Valk for the Vereniging Rembrandt;² from whom purchased by the museum (L. 2228), 1902

Object number: RP-T-1902-A-4568

Entry

Compared to the other drawing by Saenredam of the Nieuwe Kerk in the Rijksmuseum (inv. no. RP-T-1890-A-2343), this composition is set several meters to the right, in the east end of the north aisle. On the left is the pulpit, which may have been designed by Jacob van Campen (1596-1657), and in the middle the portal of the west entrance. The stained-glass windows with coats of arms, which can be seen in all of Saenredam’s drawings of the church, were removed in 1877.³ The escutcheons painted on the barrel vaults have also disappeared.

Marijn Schapelhouman, 1998

Literature

M.D. Henkel, Le dessin hollandais des origines au XVIIe siècle, Paris 1931, pp. 62-63; P.T.A. Swillens, Pieter Janszoon Saenredam. Schilder van Haarlem (1597-1665), Amsterdam 1935, pp. 14, 118-19, no. 177 (fig. 103); I.Q. van Regteren Altena et al., Catalogue Raisonné of the Works by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Published on the Occasion of the Exhibition Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 15 September – 3 December 1961, exh. cat. Utrecht (Centraal Museum) 1961, no. 77 (fig. 78); W.A. Liedtke, ‘The New Church in Haarlem Series: Saenredam’s Sketching Style in Relation to Perspective’, Simiolus 8 (1975-76), pp. 145-66 (fig. 5); G. Schwartz et al., Pieter Saenredam. De schilder in zijn tijd, Maarssen 1989, pp. 222-23 (fig. 234), 264 (no. 77)

Citation

M. Schapelhouman, 1998, 'Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, View of the Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Haarlem, Seen from the East End of the North Aisle Looking West, Haarlem, 1650-06-23', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.59848

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