Conviviality Near the Inn, early 1650s

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G13-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 97.8 × 102.2 cm (38 1/2 × 40 1/4 in.)

framed: 128.91 × 132.08 × 13.97 cm (50 3/4 × 52 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Accession Number

2014.136.42

Artists / Makers

Constantijn van Renesse (painter) Dutch, 1626 - 1680

Image Use

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Provenance

Gottfried von Preyer [1807-1901], Vienna, by 1895, as by Aert de Gelder;[1] William A. Clark [1839-1925], New York; bequest April 1926 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, as Flemish School;[2] acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] According to Karl Lilienfeld, Arent de Gelder, sein Leben und Seine Kunst, The Hague, 1914: 183, no. 141.

[2] Dana H. Carroll, Catalogue of Objects of Fine Art and Other Properties at the Home of William Andrews Clark, 962 Fifth Avenue. Part 2. Unpublished manuscript, n.d. (1925): 209, no. 282.

Associated Names

Clark, William Andrews
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Preyer, Gottfried von

Bibliography

1907: Sattler, M. "Renesse." In Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Edited by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 28(1934): 160, as Kirmes.

1924: Falck, Von G. "Über einige von Rembrandt übergangene Schülerzeichnungen." Jahrbuch der preuszischen Kunstsammlungen 45 (1924): 199-200, repro., as Kirmes.

1928: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1928: 50.

1928: Holmes, William Henry. "Installation of the W. A. Clark Collection in the Corcoran Gallery of Art." Art and Archaeology: The Arts throughout the Ages 25, no. 4 (April 1928): 169.

1932: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Illustrated Handbook of the W.A. Clark Collection. Washington, 1932: 55.

1955: Breckenridge, James D. A handbook of Dutch and Flemish paintings in the William Andrews Clark collection. Washington, 1955: 38 repro., 39.

1986: Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Washington and Grand Rapids, 1986: 300.

1995: Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1995: 307-308, repro.

1996: Broos, B. P. J. "Renesse, Constantijn (Daniel) van." In The Dictionary of Art. Edited by Jane Turner. 34 vols. New York, 1996: 26:195.