Interieur van de Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem, gezien vanuit het oostelijke eind van het gangpad, kijkend naar het westen

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, 1650-06-23

Interieur van de Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem, gezien vanuit de oostzijde van de noordbeuk, naar het westen.

  • Soort kunstwerktekening
  • ObjectnummerRP-T-1902-A-4568
  • Afmetingenhoogte 300 mm x breedte 395 mm
  • Fysieke kenmerkenpen en bruine inkt, met rood, zwart en wit krijt, op blauw papier; kaderlijnen in zwarte inkt

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

  • 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);1Copy RKD. his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 25 (26) June 1895 sqq., no. 578, fl. 48, to the dealer H.J. Valk for the Vereniging Rembrandt;2Copy RKD. 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 1877.3P. Don, Kunstreisboek. Noord-Holland, Zeist 1987, p. 289. 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: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200143836

(accessed 6 December 2025 11:04:34).

Footnotes

  • 1Copy RKD.
  • 2Copy RKD.
  • 3P. Don, Kunstreisboek. Noord-Holland, Zeist 1987, p. 289.