Motifs from the Old Church in Delft

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Motifs from the Old Church in Delft - a picture by the Dutch painter Emanuel de Witte.

Emanuel de Witte was a master in presenting sacral interiors. In his paintings, he most often showed a fragment of the church - usually from the side nave, through the nave, towards the transept or with a view of the choir. The most important element in de Witte's paintings is, just like in the painting from the Wrocław museum, the illusion of the space of the church's interior, divided by gray columns and walls. This spatiality is the placement of a series of figures in the interior, and in this, a characteristic of a painter's paintbrush, the foreground figure set back, which is also a vivid color accent. The artist very aptly captures the rather playful mood of participants in the Protestant sermon.

Emanuel de Witte, as the painter's monographer illustrates, Ilse Manke very often depicted the interior of Oude Kerk in Delft. The earliest known version comes from 1651 and is in the Wallace Collection in London. The closest to the painting in Wrocław are compositions from 1682 (collections of Sidney J. van den Bergh in Wassenar) and from around 1680 (Art Institute of Chicago). provenance

The painting was purchased from T. Wierzejski in Warsaw in 1970; earlier it was purchased in 1946 from J. Grein in Warsaw. Bibliography

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