The Fish Market and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem

Artist Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde Dutch, 1638–1698

Datecirca 1675–1680

MediumOil on panel

Dimensionsoverall: 17 5/8 × 16 3/4 in. (44.8 × 42.5 cm)
frame: 23 × 22 × 2 in. (58.4 × 55.9 × 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.69

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ProvenanceCreated Haarlem, Netherlands, ca. 1675–1680. Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), Paris; [his sale, J.F. Boileau, Paris, April 6 1772, no. 79, as Jan van der Heyden and Adriaen van de Velde, vûe de l'intérieur d'une petite Ville de Hollande]; Catalan, possibly the painter Jean-Louis Laneuville (1756–1826) [1]. Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti (1717–1776), Paris; [his sale, Pierre Remy, Paris, May 6, 1777, no. 437, as Guerard Berckeyden and Adrien Vanden Veld (Adriaen van de Velde), La vue de l'intérieur d'une ville d'Hollande]; Jacques Langlier (c. 1730–1814) [2]. Gerrit Muller, Amsterdam; [sale, Albertus Brondgeest, et al, Amsterdam, April 2, 1827, no. 24, as Jan van der Heyden and Adriaen van de Velde]; Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1808–1879), Gunnersbury Park, Middlesex, England, before 1854; by inheritance to his widow, Charlotte (1819–1884); by descent to her son, Leopold de Rothschild (1945–1917); by descent to son Lionel de Rothschild (1882–1942); by descent to son Edmund de Rothschild (1916–2009), Exbury, Hampshire, England; [Harry G. Sperling, New York, by 1947, as by van der Heyden]; [F. Kleinberger and Co., New York, by 1952]; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1953; loaned to NCMA, 1960; given to NCMA, 1961.

[1] Buyer transcribed from annotated catalogue in the Getty Provenance Index (see file). Catalan is sometimes described in annotations as buying for others. He could have been buying on behalf of the Prince to Conti in this sale. Elsewhere in the Getty Provenance Index Catalan is identified as Laneuville.
[2] Langlier was a painter. Noted as buyer in annotated version of catalogue in INHA database.

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