Interior of an Imaginary Gothic Church, Looking East

Interior of an Imaginary Gothic Church, Looking East

SK-A-287

Een kerkinterieur, op de voorgrond enkele figuren. Verderop in het middenschip wordt een dienst gehouden.

signature, top right: ‘PEETER / NEEffS’

• Bisschopp. Mus. Haarlem gedurende R.M. zomertent., 1958
• C.W. Fock, 'De Schilderijengalerij van Prins Willem V op het Buitenhof te Den Haag', in: Antiek 11, 1976, afb. 103 op. p. 169
• K. Jonckheere, '"When the cabinet from Het Loo was sold": the auction of William III's collection of paintings, 26 July 1713', Simiolus 31, nr. 3 (2004-2005), p. 213
• P.J.J. van Thiel, Oud Holland, 95 (1981), p. 204, nr. 150 + afb.

• painter: Peeter Neeffs (I)
• painter: Pieter Neefs (II) [rejected attribution]

c. 1655 - c. 1660

olieverf op paneel

height 24.4 cm x width 34.6 cm

Public domain

…; collection James II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland ('The Kings Great Closet', Whitehall Palace, London, as either no. 21, as Peter Nisse (`The prospect of a Church´){Mss in the office of the Surveyor of the Queen´s Pictures, St James´s Palace, London, dated 15 February 1688 (o.s. = 25 February 1689), thus shortly after William, Prince of Orange, had become King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland.} or as no. 557, as Peter Neefs (`A Perspective of a Church´);{_A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, &c. belonging to King James the Second etc._, printed for W. Bathoe, London 1758, p. 48.} sent by King William III of England, Scotland and Ireland, with other pictures from the English royal collection to his hunting lodge, Het Loo, Apeldoorn, c. 1700; by whom bequeathed to Prince Johan Willem Friso (1687-1711),{His seal is on the reverse, as pointed out in the 1903 museum catalogue; see also under SK-A-346.} but claimed by the English Crown, 3 August 1702, as no. 19 of the Earl of Stanhope´s list;{R. van Leeuwen (ed.), _Paintings from England, William III and the Royal Collections_, exh. cat. The Hague (Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis) 1988-89, no. 19; K. Jonckheere, _The Auction of King William´s Paintings 1713: Elite International Art Trade at the End of the Dutch Golden Age_, Amsterdam 2008, Addendum 3, p. 259, no. 19 (`La perspective du dedans d´une Eglise par Pierre Deneffe´).}Het Loo, Apeldoorn, 1702-63;{Valued in 1712, as in `De Groote Galderije´, no. 67 `Tempeltje van Neefs´ fl. 80/90, see S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795_, 3 vols., The Hague 1974-76, I, p. 698. Listed in the inventory of 1713, as in the `Galderijen van Schilderijen´, no. 841, `Een catholijke kerk of perspectijff van Peter Neve´, see idem, I, p. 677, in the inventory of 1757/59-63 in `Het schilderijcabinet´ … no. 124, `Een kerk met figuuren, zijnde de kerk tot Antwerpen 9 d. x I v. 2 d. [23.5 x 36.6 cm]´, see idem, II, p. 645.} subsequently displayed in the picture gallery of the Stadhouderlijk Hof, The Hague, listed in the inventory, no. 15 (`Een dito kerkje, extra uitvoerigh geschildert, door P. Neefs […] D. 10 x V. 1 D. 2½ [25.5 x 32.7 cm]´), 1763-64;{S.W.A. Drossaers and T.H. Lunsingh Scheurleer, _Inventarissen van de inboedels in de verblijven van de Oranjes en daarmee gelijk te stellen stukken 1567-1795, 3 vols., The Hague 1974-76, III, p. 19; listed in the undated catalogue of the Stadholder´s Cabinet, no. 103, `van het Loo. Een Klein Kerkje […] door Pieter Neefs.dm 10 x vt 1 dm 2½ [25.5 x 32.7 cm]´, see idem, III, p. 223. Not removed by the French to Paris in 1795.} passed to the museum, by 1800;{Exhibited in 1800 and listed as no. 139 in the catalogue of 1801, see P.J.J. van Thiel, `De inrichting van de Nationale Konst-Gallery in het openingsjaar 1800´, _Oud Holland_ 95 (1981), pp. 170-227, esp. p. 204, no. 150; E.W. Moes and E. van Biema, _De Nationale Konst-Gallery en Het Koninklijk Museum_, Amsterdam 1909, p. 41, no. 139: `Kerk, door Neefs´ see also, p. 224.} on loan through the DRVK to the Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague, since 1977

• Bisschopp. Mus. Haarlem gedurende R.M. zomertent., 1958
• C.W. Fock, 'De Schilderijengalerij van Prins Willem V op het Buitenhof te Den Haag', in: Antiek 11, 1976, afb. 103 op. p. 169
• K. Jonckheere, '"When the cabinet from Het Loo was sold": the auction of William III's collection of paintings, 26 July 1713', Simiolus 31, nr. 3 (2004-2005), p. 213
• P.J.J. van Thiel, Oud Holland, 95 (1981), p. 204, nr. 150 + afb.

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