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Pieter Jansz Saenredam

Interior of Saint Bavo's Church, Haarlem, 1635

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash and touches of red chalk over graphite on laid paper, squared in red chalk; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 49.1 x 35.8 cm (19 5/16 x 14 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner

Catalogue Raisonné

Utrecht 1961, no. 61

Accession Number

2015.149.1

Artists / Makers

Pieter Jansz Saenredam (artist) Dutch, 1597 - 1665

Image Use

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Provenance

Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig; the bookdealer Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam (sale, Amsterdam, R.W.P. de Vries, 16-17 July 1930, lot 162); J.M.C. Hoog, Haarlem; private collection, Maastricht; Edward Speelman, London; (Lodewijk Houthakker, Amsterdam); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 16 December 1979; by inheritance to his daughter Dian Woodner, New York; gift in 2015 to NGA

Associated Names

Anonymous
Houthakker, Lodewijk
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1961: Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1961, no. 61.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1983-85, no. 51 (cat. by George Goldner).

1984: Dutch Church Painters: Saenredam's 'Great Church at Haarlem' in Context, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1984, no. 20.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colleción Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 73 (color).

1986: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner. Albertina, Vienna, 1986, no. 61 (color).

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 61 (color).

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 62 (color).

1990: Woodner Collection, Master Drawings. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 76 (color).

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, no. 68 (entry by Arthur Wheelock)(color).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2016: Drawings for Paintings in the Age of Rembrandt, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt, Paris, 2016, no.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1935: Swillens, P.T.A. Pieter Janszoon Saenredam. Amsterdam, 1935: 39, 60-1, 94-5, no. 86.

1961: Catalogue Raisonné of the Works by Pieter Jansz. Saenredam. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1961.

1981: de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Les Nouveaux Choix de Mr. Woodner." Connaissance des Arts. 348 (1981): reproduced on cover.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection. J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1983, n.p. (reprod.)[souvenir booket accompanying the 1983 exhibition]

1983: Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon 41 (1983): 386.

1984: Alpers, Svetlana. "Seeing and Believing." Art and Antiques 74 (April 1984): 74, repro. 77.

1984: Kemp, Martin. "Geometrical Perspective from Brunelleschi to Desargues: A Pictorial Means or an Intellectual End?" Proceedings of the British Academy 70 (1984): 131-132, pl. X.

1985: Biesboer, Pieter. "Schilderijen over de kerk. De Bavo in de beeldende kunst van de 17de eeuw." in De Bavo te Boek, bij het gereedkomen van de restauratie van de Grote of St.-Bavo kerk te Haarlem. Haarlem, 1985: 88 (pl. 52), 90-91.

1985: Ruurs, R. Review of Dutch Church Painters: Saenredam's Great Church at Haarlem. Oud Holland 99, no. 3 (1985): 161-162.

1986: Kemp, Martin. "Simon Stevin and Pieter Saenredam: A Study of Mathematics and Vision in Dutch Science and Art." Art Bulletin (June 1986): 244, 246, 249, fig. 18.