Antwerp Cathedral

c. 1650/1655

Peeter Neeffs the Elder

Associated Names
Peeter Neeffs the Elder

Painter, Flemish, 1578/1590 - 1656/1661

This is a painting of a Gothic-style cathedral interior. The building features tall, cream-colored arches and vaulted, ribbed ceilings. There are framed artworks above wooden pulpits with lit candles on them, and dark gray statues high on the walls. A light blue sky is visible through tall windows, and the floor is a checkered white-and-black pattern, occasionally disrupted by rectangles of gray and white. Men, women, and children dressed in vibrant clothing walk across the floor or kneel by altars.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on copper

  • Credit Line

    Timken Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 15.3 x 23.1 cm (6 x 9 1/8 in.)
    framed: 23.5 x 31.1 x 4.1 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1960.6.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Raoul Tolentino, Florence; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 21-27 April 1920, no. 890); William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Dutch Cabinet Galleries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no cat.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 96.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 85, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 252, repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 292, repro.

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: 137-140, color repro.

Inscriptions

center left on base of column: P. NEEFFS

Wikidata ID

Q20177283

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