Sebastiaen Vrancx

Exhibited by De Jonckheere

Material Canvas

Dimensions 116.8 x 158 cm

Place of Creation Antwerp

Status Vetted

About the Work

A masterpiece by Sebastiaen Vrancx, this Interior of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp is one of the most important depictions of the building and of Catholic life in Antwerp in the 17th century. A baroque portrait of the Cathedral of Our Lady, this view plunges the viewer into the cathedral’s interior in 1621.

Provenance

Possibly Lt. Col. Crosbie, London, Christie's, London, May 1905, Schröder;
Berlin, Hermann Emden Gallery, Lempke (Emden sale), 8 May, 1910, lot 33 (as Hendrik van Steenwijk);
Berlin, Dr. Max Emden, sale of 9 June, 1931, lot 8, as Steenwijk (sold 620 according to Weltkunst 14.06.1931);
Probably Christie's, London, 21 November, 1952, lot 103;
Private collection, Netherlands (Rubenshuis Neg. MC 684);
Private collection, Italy.

Literature

PHILIPPOT, Paul, L'architecture religieuse et la sculpture baroques dans les Pays-Bas méridionaux et la principauté de Liège 1600-1770, Sprimont, Mardaga, 2003, pp. 16 and 167, repr.;
BAISIER, Claire, De documentaire waarde van de kerkinterieurs van de Antwerpse school in de Spaanse tijd (1585-1713), doctoral thesis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2008, p. 46-48 ;
FABRI, Ria, From Quinten Metsijs to Pieter Paul Rubens: masterpieces from the Royal Museum reunited in the Cathedral, Antwerp, BAI, 2009, p. 45, fig. 25;
HOWARTH, Jeremy, The Steenwyck Family as Masters of Perspective, Turnhout, Brepols, 2009, p. 182, cat. II. B 127, fig. p. 470, repr.;
MAILLET, Bernard G., Intérieurs d’églises. La peinture architecturale des écoles du Nord.1580-1720, Wijnegem, Pandora Publishers, 2012, p. 376, cat. M.1193, pp. 41, 62, 174, 177 repr.;
BAISIER, Claire, Divine Interiors. Experience churches in the age of Rubens, cat. exp., [Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, 17 June - 16 October, 2016], BAI, Kontich, p. 19-20, fig.9, repr.