Master Paintings and Drawings

Master Paintings and Drawings

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 167. The Church of Saint Walburga in Antwerp, with a Mass being said, many figures, and a door open on the right.

Property from a West Coast Private Collection

Pieter Neefs the Younger

The Church of Saint Walburga in Antwerp, with a Mass being said, many figures, and a door open on the right

Lot Closed

October 22, 03:25 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from a West Coast Private Collection

Pieter Neefs the Younger

Antwerp 1620 - after 1675

The Church of Saint Walburga in Antwerp, with a Mass being said, many figures, and a door open on the right


signed and dated center right: Peeter / Neeffs / 1658

oil on canvas

canvas: 22¾ by 32¾ in.; 57.8 by 83.2 cm.

framed: 28 by 38 in.; 71.1 by 96.5 cm. 

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 19 January 1984, lot 3;
With Alan Jacobs Gallery, London;
From whom acquired, February 1985.
B.G. Maillet, Intérieurs d'églises 1580–1720. La peinture architecturale des écoles du nord, Brussels 2012, p. 338, cat. no. M-0962, reproduced (as Peeter Neeffs I-II).
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1988 (on loan).

This interior of the Antwerp church of Saint Walburga, which was demolished in 1817, comes close in composition to another painting by Pieter Neefs the Younger that is dated 1656 and is today in a private collection.1


1. Oil on canvas, 38.7 by 52.7 cm, https://rkd.nl/explore/images/10647.