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Cornelis Christiaan Dommelshuizen

The Statue of Liberty at Twilight

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October 6, 05:09 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

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Cornelis Christiaan Dommelshuizen

Dutch 1842-1928

The Statue of Liberty at Twilight


signed and dated lower right: Christian Dommelshuizen 1897.; further inscribed, signed and dated on the reverse: Entrance to New York Ch. Dommelshuizen / 1897

oil on canvas

canvas: 30 ¾ by 50 in.; 78 by 127 cm

framed: 36 ¾ by 56 in.; 93.2 by 142.3 cm

In the collection of the Van Lookeren Campagne family since at least 1950 

The Hague, Kunsthandel J.J. Biesing, 1898 (possibly)

The ship that is depicted is the ‘Amsterdam II’, acquired in 1887 by the NASM (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij), renamed in 1896 to the ‘Holland America Line’. The ship mainly sailed on the line from Rotterdam to New York. The Statue of Liberty, seen in the background, was erected eleven years before the creation of the present painting.