Pieter Jansz. Saenredam

Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston BOSTON, MASS.- Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announces that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have made a commitment to give their exceptional collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to the Museum—a donation that will constitute the largest gift of European paintings in MFA history. The Boston-area collectors plan to give the MFA not only their art collections, but also a major research library and funding to establish a Center for... [Lire la suite]

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (Assendelft 1597-1665 Haarlem), A view of Assendelft. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd., 2012 signed and dated 'Ao. 1634 P. Sanredam f' (lower right, on the boulder), oil on panel, 14¼ x 19 3/8 in. (36.2 x 49.2 cm.). Estimate £400,000 - £600,000 ($623,200 - $934,800) Provenance: Mattheus Willem van Valkenburg (1718-1784), Haarlem; his sale, Haarlem, 17 May 1784, lot 3, 'Het Regthuis en Kerke te Assendelft, fraay gestoffeert, met Beelden, en voor in met een Man in een Schuit, extra... [Lire la suite]

Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, The Nave and Choir of the Sint-Catharinakerk (St. Catherine’s Church) in Utrecht. oil on board. 116.8 x 95.8 cm. Upton House, The Bearsted Collection, The National Trust MADRID.- November 11 marks the opening of the 22nd exhibition in the Contexts of the Permanent Collection series, which on this occasion is devoted to the Dutch painter Pieter Jansz. Saenredam (1597-1665). Through the exhibition, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be offering an overview of the work of this artist, one of the leading... [Lire la suite]