2001.167: Interior of a Church at Night with a Procession

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2001.167

People

Peeter Neeffs the Elder, Flemish (c.1578 - 1659)

Title

Interior of a Church at Night with a Procession

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1640-1655

Culture

Flemish

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/221459

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on oak panel

Dimensions

52.8 x 74.3 cm (20 13/16 x 29 1/4 in.)
frame: 73 x 93.2 cm (28 3/4 x 36 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

William Cavendish, By descent through family, 1857, To his heirs, 1857. Possibly from his ancestors George Augustus Cavendish or George Cavendish, 1st earl of Burlington
The Trustees of the Holker Estates, England, By descent through family, Sold at Christie's, 1994. per Christie's catalogue, recorded in an undated inventory of the Holker Estate
Vermeer Associates Limited, Brampton, Canada, Bought at Christie's, 1994, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001. "Important and Fine Old Master Pictures", lot 251

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Walter C. Klein and the Director's Discretionary Fund

Accession Year

2001

Object Number

2001.167

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain: being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, mss., &c. &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described, John Murray (London, England, 1857), p. 425

Exhibition History

• 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/09/2016 - 09/08/2017

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