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.
Published ReferencesRecueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul (Paris, 1771), no. 76, illus. fig. 76.

"Catalogue des Tableaux qui composent le cabinet de monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul," (auction catalogue) (Paris: J. F. Boileau, April 6, 1772), lot 79, as Jan van der Heyden and Adriaen van de Velde, vûe de l'intérieur d'une petite Ville de Hollande.

"Catalogue d'une Riche Collection de Tableaux...qui composent le cabinet de feu son altesse sérénissime Monseigneur le Prince de Conti" (auction catalogue) (Paris: Pierre Remy, April 8–June 6, 1777, this lot May 6), lot 437, as Guerard Berckeyden and Adrien Vanden Veld (Adriaen van de Velde), La vue de l'intérieur d'une ville d'Hollande.

John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, Vol. 5 (London: Smith and Son, 1834), 377, 409-410.

Gustav F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, Vol. 2 (London: John Murray, 1854), 131.

C [ornelis] Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 8 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1927), cat. no. 81.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 140, illus. (b-w) 141.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 62, illus. (b-w) 63.

Helga Wagner, Jan van der Heyden (Amsterdam and Haarlem: Scheltema & Holkema, 1971), 117, listed nr. 81.

Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Paintings Excluding Italian (Oxford: Phaidon Press for Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1977), 48-49.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 113.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 13, illus. (b-w) 13, fig. 14.

Cynthia Lawrence, Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde (1638-1698): Haarlem Cityscape Painter (Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1991), 30, 39-40, illus. pl. 27.

Johnny Van Haeften, Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings (London: Amadeus, 1992), footnote no. 1, related drawing. Source: Cynthia Lawrence, Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde (1638-98): Haarlem Cityscape Painter (Doornspijk, 199[ ]), 45, illus. fig. 38. (Curatorial File)

Peter C. Sutton, Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings, the Harold Samuel Collection (London: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 29, illus.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art 1992), illus. (b-w) 106.

D. S. [David Steel], "A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1993), mentioned 8.

Chiyo Ishikawa, et al, A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994), cat. no. 29, illus. (color).

Deugd boven geweld: Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995 (Haarlem: Hilversum Verloren, 1995), 301, illus. (color) fig. 12.32.

Herman Roodenburg, "'Welstand' en 'Wellevenheid'," Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art (Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1995), 426, illus. (detail) 427.

Dennis Weller, entry for The Fish Market and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 109, illus. (color).

Like Father, Like Son? (exhibition brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2000), illus. (color) pl. 3.

Herman Roodenburg, The Eloquence of the Body (Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 2004), briefly discussed 154, detail (b-w) 156, fig. 56.

Dennis P. Weller, "Cityscape of Haarlem: Berckheyde's Fish Market," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (January/February 2007), discussed 11, illus. (color) 10-11.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 5, illus. (color) 24, also mentioned xii.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for The Fish Market and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 236, illus. (color) 237.

"Old Masters (Centuries of Taste: Legacy of a Private Collection)," (auction catalogue) (New York: Christie's, Feburary 5, 2025), lot 10, illus. (color), fig. 3.
Exhibition HistoryHartford, CT, Wadsworth Atheneum, "A Loan Exhibition of Fifty Painters of Architecture," October 30-December 25, 1947, cat. no. 25, illus.

Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, "Seventeenth Century Painters of Haarlem," April 2-June 13, 1965, cat. no. 5.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 62, illus. (b-w) 63.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, discussed 13, illus. (b-w) 13, fig. 14.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to America: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," February 5 -April 24, 1994; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 22- August 14, 1994; Seattle Art Museum, September 15-November 20, 1994; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, December 17, 1994-March 4, 1995, cat. no. 29, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20, 1995-May 26, 1996.

Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, "Shared Treasure: The Legacy of Samuel H. Kress," September 15, 2011-February 15, 2012.

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