The Marketplace in Bergen op Zoom
probably 1590 and 1597
Painter, Flemish, c. 1570 - 1618/1619


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 41
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 63.8 x 82.2 cm (25 1/8 x 32 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1979.50.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection, Berlin, by 1918; (Fritsche, Berlin); purchased c. 1952 by Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Look, Washington, D.C.;[1] gift 1979 to NGA.
[1] In a letter to Sturla Gudlaugsson, Institute for Art History, The Hague, dated 22 January 1970 (copy in NGA curatorial files), Earl Look writes: "In about 1952, I bought it from the well-known Oriental art dealer, Herr Fritsche, in Berlin. Fritsche told me that he had obtained it from the estate of a former, pre-World War I Director of the Berlin Art Museum."
Associated Names
Bibliography
1984
Vanwesenbeeck, Cees. "Bergen op Zoom in Washington." De Waterschans (March 1984): 13-14, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 190, repro., as by Abel Grimmer.
1991
Bertier de Sauvigny, Reine de. Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue raisonné. Belgium, 1991: 202, 203, 226, no. 25, repro., as by Abel Grimmer.
2005
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 112-116, color repro.
2020
Libby, Alexandra. “From Personal Treasures to Public Gifts: The Flemish Painting Collection at the National Gallery of Art.” In America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and their Circles, edited by Esmée Quodbach. The Frick Collection Studies in the History of Art Collecting in America 5. University Park, 2020: 140.
Inscriptions
on house at far side of market square: 1590[?]; lower left: 1597 / A[illegible, possibly remnant of a signature]
Wikidata ID
Q20176826