Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, Emanuel de Witte, 1680

Identification

Title(s)

Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-3738

Inscriptions / marks

Description

Interieur van de Portugese synagoge te Amsterdam tijdens een joodse dienst. Op de voorgrond een groep toeschouwers met kinderen en honden.

Creation

Artist

painter: Emanuel de Witte

Dating

1680

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Measurements

height 110 cm × width 99 cm

Subject

What

When

1670 - 1680

Where

Portugese Synagoge (Amsterdam)

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase Jun-1949

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Wilhelm Krause (1803-64), Berlin; from his wife, 850 DM (50 Freidrichsdor) to the Königliche Gemäldegalerie, later the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, 1847 (on loan to the Gemäldegalerie in Wiesbaden from 1884 till 1918 or later);{Von Stockhausen 2000, p. 339, no. 730; coll. cat. Wiesbaden 1918, p. 56, no. 230.} exchanged with the dealer Galerie van Diemen & Co, Berlin, for another Interior of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte, between 1925 and 1927;{Manke 1963, p. 121, nos. 206, 207.} … ; purchased by Anton Jurgens (1867-1945), Nijmegen, London?, and New York, 1928 or 1929;{Manke 1963, p. 121; London 1929, no. 312.} mentioned in his collection, 1935;{Rotterdam 1935a, pp. 39-40, no. 120.} ? from whose estate sold to the dealer B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1949;{Kaplan 2000, p. 44, note 60.} from whom, £ 1,250, to the dealer Duits, 1949;{GRI, Acc. no. 860290, Duits Ltd. (Gallery: London, England) records, 1920-1979, box 14, diary 1949.} from whom, fl. 31,061, to the museum, 1949;{Provenance reconstructed in Manke 1963, p. 121, no. 206.} on loan to the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, since May 2006

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Relations

HA-0035532Groot formaat röntgenfilm van het schilderij Interieur van de Portugese synagoge te AmsterdamRM0001.COLLECT.30031020
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Documentation

De gebroeders Verveer, Christiaan Lucht, p. 17, afb. 9
Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, p. 480-481, cat.nr. 151
De Gouden Eeuw: proeftuin van onze wereld, Hans 1963- Goedkoop, p. 120-121, afb. 1
L'âge d'or hollandais, p. 34
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch art, Ruud Priem, p. 168-169
L'âge d'or hollandais, p. 208-209, cat.nr. 84
Rembrandt and the Golden Age, Ruud Priem, cat.nr. 50
Perspectiven, Jeroen Giltaij, p. 208-209
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Pieter J.J. van Thiel, p. 611
Emanuel de Witte, 1617-1692, Ilse Manke, p. 58, 121, cat.nr. 206
E. van Voolen, 'Gezicht op de Grote en de Portugese Synagoge te Amsterdam', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 19 (2009) nr. 1, p. 11.
Yosef Kaplan, 'For whom did Emanuel de Witte paint his three pictures of the Sephardic Synagogue in Amsterdam?', Studia Rosenthaliana 32 (1998).

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