About the Artwork
View of the Oude Delft Canal, Delft
ca. 1660
Jan van der Heyden
1637-1712
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on cradled plywood panel (transferred from oak panel)
Unframed: 21 3/4 × 27 7/8 inches (55.2 × 70.8 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
48.218
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
collection of Pieter van Winter (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
by descent, collection of Lucretia Johanna van Winter [Mrs. Hendrik Six Van Hillegom] [1785-1845] (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
by descent, to their sons, Pieter Hendrik Six van Vromade and Jan Pieter Six van Hillegom [died 1899]
by descent, son of Jan Pieter Six van Hillegom [died 1899], Jan Six van Hillegom [1857-1926]
October 16, 1928, auction of Six Family by (Fr. Muller, Amsterdam, Netherlands), lot 13
October 16, 1928, purchased by Dr. Bloch (Berlin, Germany). collection of Lord Melchett (London, England). 1947, collection of H. L. Larsen (Wassenaar, Netherlands)
November 6, 1947, auction of H. L. Larsen by (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), lot 30
1948, (Nicholas M. Aquavella Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1948-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds with Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
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Smith, John. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 5. London, 1834, p. 399, no. 99.
Catalogus der Verzameling Schilderijen en Familie-Portretten van de Heeren Jhr. P.H. Six van Vromade, Jhr. Dr. J. Six en Jhr. W. Six Wegens Verbouwing in Het Stedelijk Museum van Amserdam Tentoongesteld. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, 1900, p. 13, no. 43.
Wurzbach, Alfred von. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. 1. Vienna, 1906, p. 686 [as in Six collection].
't Hooft, C. G. Amsterdamsche Stadsgezichten van Jan van der Heyden. Amsterdam, 1912, pp. 7, 8, 15, 16.
Groot, C. Hofstede de. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 8. London, 1927, p. 345, no. 52.
March 50 Tableaux Anciens de L'École Hollandaise Eaux Fortes et Dessins de Rembrandt Provenant de la Collection-Six. Sales cat., Frederik Muller & Cie, October 16, 1928, p. 3, no. 13 (ill.).
"Zur Auktion der Sammlung Six, Amsterdam." Pantheon 2 (September 1928): pp. 427-432, pp. 427, 431 (ill.).
Gazel, L. "Les Ventes: Vente Six d'Amsterdam." Beaux-Arts 6, no. 20 (December 1, 1928): pp. 318-319, p. 319.
Waldmann, Emil. "Die Altsumerischen Funde aus Ur." Cicerone 20 (1922): pp. 559–563, p. 562 (ill.).
Martin, W. De Hollandsche Schilderkunst in de Zeventiende Eeuw, vol. 1. Amsterdam, 1936, p. 58 (ill.).
A Thousand Years of Landscape East and West. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 1945, p. 9 [as in the collection of the Heirs of H. L. Lersen].
March Dutch Paintings and Drawings Collected by the Late H.L. Larsen. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc. New York, November 6, 1947, p. 16, no. 30 (ill.).
Richardson, E. P. "A View of Delft by Jan van der Heyden." Bulletin of the DIA 28, no. 2 (1949): pp. 30-32, (ill.).
Richardson, E. P. "A View of Delft by Jan van der Heyden," Art Quarterly 12, no. 1 (Winter 1949): pp. 106-107, 102 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture Given by Edgar B. Whitcomb and Anna Scripps Whitcomb to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit. 1954, pp. 18-19 (ill.).
Wagner, Helga. Jan van der Heyden 1637–1712. Amsterdam, 1971, pp. 57, 74, no. 32 (ill.).
Sluijter, E. J. "Boekbesprekingen: Helga Wagner, Jan van der Heyden 1637-1712," Oud Holland 87, no. 4 (1973): pp. 244-252, pp. 248–250 (ill.) [The caption and image for figs. 6 and 7 are erroneously transposed].
Walsh, Jr., John. "Vermeer." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 31, no. 4 (Summer 1973): pp. 181-219, unpaginated, (fig. 6) (ill.).
Vries, Lyckle de. Jan van der Heyden. Amsterdam, 1984, p. 26 (ill.).
Lokin, Daniëlle. "Views in and of Delft." In Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries, eds. Michiel C.C. Kersten and Daniëlle H.A.C. Lokin. Zwolle, 1996, pp. 125-126 (ill.).
Priem, Ruud. "The ‘most excellent collection’ of Lucretia Johanna van Winter: the years 1890-22, with a catalogue of the works purchased." Simiolus 25, nos. 2/3 (1997): pp. 103-196, p. 191 (ill.).
Priem, Ruud. "Catalogue of old master paintings acquired by Lucretia Johnna van Winter, 1809-22" Simiolus 25, nos. 2/3 (1997): pp. 197-230, p. 219.
Stapel, Leonore. Perspectieven van de stad. Over bronnen, populariteit en functie van het zeventiende-eeuwse stadgezicht. Hilversum, 2000, pp. 28-29, (fig. 18).
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 102-103, no. 40 (ill.).
Sutton, Peter C. Jan van der Heyden (1637–1712). Exh. cat., Bruce Museum. New Haven, 2006, pp. 36, 108-109, no. 2 (ill.).
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Jan van der Heyden, View of the Oude Delft Canal, Delft, ca. 1660, oil on cradled plywood panel (transferred from oak panel). Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 48.218.
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