Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Possibly bought from the artist by Adriaen Backer (Amsterdam 1635/6–1684), Haarlem (see note);

Possibly by descent to his son Adriaen Backer (d. 1739), Haarlem, who married Anna Catharina van der Camer in 1698;

Dirk van Dijl (1742–1814), Amsterdam;

His sale, Amsterdam, Vinkeles, 10 January 1814, lot 139 (as ‘P. Saanreadam, Een Protestansche Kerk van binnen te zien, gestoffeerd met twee beelden, uitvoerig gepenceeld, hoog 13½, breed 11½ duim’ [‘The interior of a Protestant Church with two figures, extensively painted, 13½ x 11½ inches’]), bought by [Adriaan or Jan] de Lelie;

Adriaan de Lelie (1755–1820), painter, Amsterdam, or his son Jan Adriaan Antoine de Lelie (1788–1845), art-dealer, Amsterdam;

Munk collection;

His sale, Amsterdam, Van der Schley, 16 October 1815, lot 94 (as ‘Eene met Beeldjes gestoffeerde Protestanten Kerk van binnen. Zonachtig, Zonachtig, op P. door P.J. Saenredam, h. 13, br. 12 d.’ [‘The interior of a Protestant Church with figures, Sunny, on panel, 13 x 12 inches’]), for fl. 14,5 to Gruijter;

With Willem Gruijter (1763–1831), Amsterdam;

Private collection, from 1961 to 2004;

With The Brod Gallery, London, by 1970;

Anonymous sale (‘Property from a Private Collection’), New York, Sotheby's, 22 January 2004, lot 90;

With Robert Noortman, Maastricht;

From whom acquired, on 30 May 2004 by Pieter Dreesmann, London;

Pieter and Olga Dreesmann, Brussels (inventory no. B19);

By whom sold, London, Christie’s, 2 July 2012, lot 25;

There acquired by the present collector.

O.H. Dijkstra, ‘P.J. Saenredam, De noordwest-hoek van de Nieuwe Kerk te Haarlem’, in Jaarboek Vereniging Haerlem, 1972, pp. 99–101, reproduced;

W.A. Liedtke, ‘The New Church in Haarlem series. Saenredam's sketching style in relation to perspective’, in Simiolus, 8, 1975-6, pp. 145–46, fig. 2;

G.D. Schwartz and M.J. Bok, Pieter Saenredam. The painter and his time, The Hague 1990, pp. 222, 225–26, 264 and 332, no. 81a, fig. 238 (chapter 15, note 9);

J. Giltaij and G.M.C. Jansen, Perspectives. Saenredam and the architectural painters of the 17th century, Rotterdam 1991, p. 129, under no. 20;

E. Schavemaker, One Hundred Master Paintings, Zwolle 2007, pp. 262–65, no. 58, reproduced in colour.