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View of the North Port at Hoorn

Wouter Knijff Dutch, 1607 - after 1694
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About the Artwork

View of the North Port at Hoorn

1648

Wouter Knijff

1607 - after 1694

Dutch

Unknown

Oil on oak panel

Unframed: 16 7/8 × 25 1/4 inches (42.9 × 64.1 cm) Framed: 20 1/4 × 28 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (51.4 × 72.4 × 3.8 cm)

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European Painting

Gift of James E. Scripps

89.36

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Signed and dated, lower left: W Knyf 1648 [the W and K form a monogram]

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Provenance

Collection of T.J. Ireland, Esq. (Ousden Hall, Suffolk, England)

January 26, 1889, auction (Christie's, London, England) lott 133 [as Jan van Goyen]

1889, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Detroit Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889,no. 40. [as Jan van Goyen].

"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 150 [as by Jan van Goyen, "River Scene"].

Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, p. 22.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p.51, no. 41. [as Jan van Goyen]

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no.118 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P. "From Old Bruegel to Van Goyen." Art Quarterly 1, 3 (1938): pp. 181-203 (fig. 11).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp.132-133.

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Wouter Knijff, View of the North Port at Hoorn, 1648, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.36.

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