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
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
Inscriptions
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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
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inscribed on verso: centre, in pencil, 9; lower left, in black ink, No 1003.; above that, in graphite, No 110
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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
Copyright: Public domain
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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