- Museum number
- 1912,1214.8
- Description
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Interior of a church, with figures; a lady and gentleman talking to a Franciscan monk at right, a man approaching at left, behind a simple wooden screen two other monks walking, stained glass windows behind and to right
Pen and black ink with grey wash and watercolour, touched with white heightening; framing-line in pen and black ink
Verso: laid down
No watermark visible or recorded.
- Production date
- 1644-1677
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres (chain lines vertical, distance apart uncertain)
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Width: 152 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- In Hind as attributed to P J Saenredam (Vol.IV, p.46).
Entry from Martin Royalton-Kisch, 'Catalogue of drawings by Rembrandt and his school', 2010, Anthonie van Borssom, cat. no.18:
See cat. no.17 (1912,1214.7). The statue of an apostle by the arch resembles that in a painting, formerly in a private collection in Leiden, which shows elements from the Pieterskerk and the Hooglandse kerk in Leiden.[1]
NOTES:
[1] The painting repr. Vermet, 1982, fig.4, who noticed the connection.
LITERATURE :
London, 1931, p.46, no.7, repr. pl.XXVII (as attributed to P.J. Saenredam, but possibly by van Borssom); Vermet, 1982, p.412, repr. fig.9 (van Borssom; relates apostle figure to ex-Leiden painting).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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No exhibitions recorded.
- Condition
- A brown stain, upper left; some oxidised white and surface dirt; generally good.
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Acquisition notes
- Verso inscribed with an old collection no: "3893" (see Inscriptions).
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel; his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley, et al., 3 March, etc., 1810, 'kunstboek' E, no.8, sold for f.65 with no.9 [here cat. no.17 (1912,1214.7)] and the related print; Goll van Franckenstein; his sale, Amsterdam, de Vries, Brondgeest, et al., 1 July, etc., 1833, 'kunstboek' F, no.20 (with cat. no.17, 1912,1214.7) [the pair now in BM]; William Esdaile (L.2617); his sale, London, Christie's 18 June, etc., 1840, lot 588 (as J.[sic] Saenredam), bt White, £3-15s, with lot 589 (here cat. no.17, 1912,1214.7) [- the pair]; J.P. Heseltine (according to British Museum register); presented to the British Museum by Otto Beit, 1912.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,1214.8
