EMANUEL DE WITTE | INTERIOR OF A GOTHIC CHURCH LOOKING DOWN THE AISLE TOWARD THE CHOIR, WITH A FAMILY BEGGING FOR ALMS
Auction Closed
May 22, 08:55 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
EMANUEL DE WITTE
(Alkmaar circa 1617 - 1691/2 Amsterdam)
INTERIOR OF A GOTHIC CHURCH LOOKING DOWN THE AISLE TOWARD THE CHOIR, WITH A FAMILY BEGGING FOR ALMS
bears signature: Emmanuel / [W]itte
oil on panel
19⅞ by 14 in.; 50.5 by 35.5 cm.
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 15 October 1998, 🦩lot 60;
Where acquired.
Around 1660, Emanuel de Witte began painting imagined churches based on real examples, and he repeated certain figures and motifs such as the woman begging for alms at l🐈eft. Although fabricated, De Witte's scenes evoke a particular moment in time, enlivened by additions like the dog relieving itself at lower right. Ilse Manke describes a very similar view toward the choir, with the same begging woman and the same dimensions, but with an organ in the background [1]. Marijke de Kinkelder of the RKD confirmed the attribution in 1997 and dated the painting to the 1660s.
1. I. Manke, Emanuel de Witte, 1617 - 1692, Amsterdam 1963, p. 112, no. 144.