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Jacob de Wit painted this overdoor, an allegory of Winter, for the house of Cornelis Hop, who later became burgomaster of Amsterdam. Summer and Autumn are also on view in this room. With smoothly executed scenes in white and grey paint (grisailles), De Wit emulated stucco or marble reliefs, thereby imitating sculpture. In Dutch these kinds of paintings were called ‘witjes’, a play on the artist’s …
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/23D41(+4)
- http://iconclass.org/92D1916
- http://iconclass.org/41B211
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
- Grisaille
Medium
- M.C.C. Reynvaan Bequest, Elspeet
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/23D41(+4)
- http://iconclass.org/92D1916
- http://iconclass.org/41B211
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
- Grisaille
Medium
- M.C.C. Reynvaan Bequest, Elspeet
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1740
- 1740
Place-Time
- second quarter 18th century
Provenance
- Commissioned by Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), for his house Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam; his son Jacob Hop (1728-1776), with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1762; by descent to Rudolph Willem Jacob Pabst van Bingerden (1775-1841), Geertrui Sara Agathe van Heeckeren, née Pabst van Bingerden (1774-1866) and Antonia Jacoba Margaretha van Lynden, née Pabst van Bingerden (1776-1815), with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1801; Geertrui Sara Agathe van Heeckeren, née Pabst van Bingerden, with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1825; Catharina Antonia Bijleveld, née Goll van Franckenstein (1798-1854), with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1841; H.W.B. Kerckhoff, with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1854; Thomas Sowden Reinhold, with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1857; Apolonius Johannes Reijnvaan (1806-1889), with Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, 1863; his daughter Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan (1854-1934), without Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, that was sold to A.J. Mensing, head of auction house Frederik Muller & Co, in 1904; on loan from Marie Cornélie Cathérine Reynvaan, Elspeet, with two other paintings (SK-A-3231 and SK-A-3233), to the museum, 1926-1929 (inv. no. SK-C-1171); by whom bequeathed to the museum, with two other paintings (SK-A-3231 and SK-A-3232) and a mirror (SK-A-3234), 1934.
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9606
- SK-A-3233
Extent
- height 101 cm
- width 98 cm
- depth 5.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1740
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:15:03.558Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:45.200Z