Interior of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam
Protestant Gothic church. View through a side aisle parallel to the picture to a wall with three high, partly coloured windows, under these an open entrance. At the left margin the pulpit. At the left foreground a woman with a child, a standing gentleman and a dog. At the right front a board and a broom leaning against the wall. Inscription and date at half height on a pillar at the right side. (Description according to Ilse Manke, Emanuel de Witte 1617-1692, Amsterdam 1963, p 108f., No 128)
[...]; most probably 1762 by Catherine the Great together with a pendant from the Winter Palace to the Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; most probably 1924 to the Hermitage, St. Petersburg (Inventory Hermitage 1859-1926, No. 8235); most likely sold in 1929 within the framework of the state art sales from public museums of the Soviet Union; between 1929 and 1942 whereabouts unknown or not secured (Collection Mr. Webbe [or Capt. Webb in Woodford, Ashford, Kent ?],), March 1933 Kunsthandlung W. E. Duits, Amsterdam); at the latest 7.10.1942 Collection Walter Weber, Munich (BArch 323/143 p. 13, No. 60); according to the last will and testament of Walter Weber of 24.6.1943, de Witte's work is to become a legacy in the holdings of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie after his death (Archiv der SKD, 02/VF 1. 20, pp. 2-8); 17.4.1944 mentioned as the property of Walter Weber in a list of objects from private collectors stored in Weesenstein Castle as third-party property (Archiv der SKD, 02/VA 52, vol. 3, sheets 283); most probably transferred from Weesenstein Palace to Pillnitz Palace in April 1946, together with holdings from the Dresden collections and other third-party holdings (cf. SKD Archive 02/VA 59, Vol. 2, p. 242); in the 1950s, initially inventoried in the S inventory of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Picture Gallery) (Inv. No. S 236), recorded in the access book for paintings in 1963 and included in the gallery's holdings under Gal.-Nr. 3499
Katalog Kaiserliche Akademie der Künste, St. Petersburg, 1886, Nr. 491.
Hans Jantzen, Das niederländische Architekturbild, Braunschweig 1979 (2. Auflage), S. 243, Nr. 685/686.
Ilse Manke, Emanuel de Witte 1617-1692, Amsterdam 1963, S. 108f., Nr. 128.
Harald Marx (Hrg.), Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Dresden, Bd. 2, Illustriertes Gesamtverzeichnis, Köln 2007, S. 589.
Uta Neidhardt, Licht und Schatten – Emanuel de Wittes „Inneres der Oude Kerk in Amsterdam“, in: SKD, Birgit Dalbajewa, Andreas Dehmer, Konstanze Krüger, Uta Neidhardt, Christoph Schölzel (Hrg.), Die Macht der Malkunst – Beiträge aus Werkstatt und Wissenschaft zu Ehren von Marlies Giebe, Dresden 2020, S. 46f.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Zwinger
Theaterplatz 1
01067 Dresden
Germany