Renaissance Interior with Banqueters

Artist Bartholomeus van Bassen Dutch, circa 1590–1652

Artist Esaias van de Velde I Dutch, 1587–1630

Datecirca 1618–1622

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions22 5/8 x 34 1/4 in. (57.5 x 87 cm)
Frame: 32 5/8 x 44 x 3 in. (82.9 x 111.8 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds given in honor of Harriet Dubose Kenan Gray by her son Thomas S. Kenan III, and from Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange

Object number98.3

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated The Hague, ca. 1618–1622. [Bukowski, Stockholm, Sweden, March 29–30, 1927, no. 50]; [Bukowski, Stockholm, October 24–26, 1945, no. 104]. [Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm, April 11, 1984, lot 583]. [Galerie Koller, Zürich, March 21, 1996, no. 23]; [Raphael Valls, Ltd., London]; [Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam]; [Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York]; sold to NCMA, 1998.

Published ReferencesGeorge S. Keyes, Esaias van den Velde: 1587-1630 (Doornspijk: Davaco, 1984), cat. no. XXVI as Sumptuous Renaissance Interior with Banqueters, pp. 90, 178, illus. pl. 349.

Jan Briels, Vlaamse Schilders in de Noordelijke Nederlanden in het begin van de Gouden Eeuw (Haarlem: H.J.W. Becht, 1987), 291, illus. fig 366, as Interieur met Burgerlijk Gezelschap.

Dieter Beaujean, "Druckgraphik als Vorlage für Bilder in Bildern,"Bulletin: Museés Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique Bruxelles (1992/1-4 - 1993/1-4): 63, 87, 89-90, illus. 87.

Recent Acquisitions (London: Rafael Valls Limited, 1996), no. 2, illus. (color).

La Chronique des Arts (supplement to) Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1562 (March 1999), 97.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Annual Report (1997-98), illus. (b-w) 47.

Axel Rüger, Vermeer and Painting in Delft (London: National Gallery Company, 2001), 22-23, illus. (color) 22.

M. H. Costopoulos, unpublished paper on Renaissance Interior with Banqueters [see curatorial file].

Walter Liedtke, Vermeer and the Delft School (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001), cat. no. 7, pp. 225-26, illus. (color) 225: mentioned 17, 51, 73, 74, 77, 137, 142, 152, 222, 277, 320, 351, 378.

Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004), discussed 86-87, 273 (footnote 13), illus. (b-w) 86.

Axel Rüger and Rachel Billinge, "The Design Practices of the Dutch Architectural Painter Bartholomeus van Bassen," National Gallery Technical Bulletin 26 (London: National Gallery Company, 2005), briefly discussed 37-38, illus. (color and infrared reflectogram) 37.

Elmer Kolfin, The Young Gentry at Play, translated by Michael Hoyle (Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2005), mentioned 104, illus. (color) pl. 2.

Axel Rüger and Rachel Billinge, "The Design Practices of the Dutch Architectural Painter Bartholomeus van Bassen," in National Gallery Technical Bulletin, vol. 26 (London: National Gallery of Art, 2005), discussed 37-39, illus. (color) 37, pl. 7.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 4, illus. (color) 17, also mentioned xii.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for Renaissance Interior with Banqueters, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 206, illus. (color) 207.

Christina Gottler, B. Ramakers, J. Woodall, eds. Trading Values in Early Modern Antwerp (Leiden: Brill, 2014), illus.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Vermeer and the Delft School," March 5-May 27, 2001; London, The National Gallery, June 20-September 16, 200, cat. no. 7, pp. 225-26, illus. (color) 225: mentioned 17, 51, 73, 74, 77, 137, 142, 152, 222, 277, 320, 351, 378.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Objects of Desire: The Museum Collects, 1994-2004," July 18, 2004-February 27, 2005.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," September 5, 2023-March 26, 2024.
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