Property from a West Coast Private Collection
Dirck van Delen
Flemish cathedral with beguines and elegant visitors
Lot Closed
January 28, 04:34 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a West Coast Private Collection
Dirck van Delen
Heusden circa 1605 - 1671 Arnemuiden
Flemish cathedral with beguines and elegant visitors
signed and indistinctly dated center right edge: D.V. DELEN 1639
oil on panel
panel: 18 ¾by 31 in.; 47.6 by 78.7 cm.
framed: 26½ by 38 ½ in.; 67.3 by 97.8 cm.
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 13 April 1973, lot 144 (as Dirck van Delen and Frans Francken II, based on an old label, and as dated 1634);
There acquired by Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, by 1973;
From whom acquired, September 1981.
There acquired by Alan Jacobs Gallery, London, by 1973;
From whom acquired, September 1981.
B. Maillet, Intérieurs d'églises : la peinture architecturale des écoles du nord : 1580-1720, Wijnegem 2012, p. 234, cat. no. M- 0337 (as Dirck van Delen).
The women in the foreground wearing black capes with a pointed headdress are beguines, or religious women belonging to a tertiary order who lived in an enclosed community but still interacted with the outside world and often maintained their personal possessions and wealth. Beguines grew in number during the Counter-Reformation in the Spanish-controlled southern Netherlands and were bastions of the Catholic faith during the 80 Years' War and influential as patrons of religious art.
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