About This Artwork

Cornelis de Man
Dutch, 1621-1706

The Oude Kerk, Delft, 1660/70

Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 30 1/2 in. (64.1 x 77.4 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, 1965.1176

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Stedelijk Museum ‘Het Prinsenhof’, Delft, Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, March 1-June 2, 1996, pp. 83–4, ill, 68.

Publication History

John Maxon, "Some Recent Acquisitions," Apollo 84 (Sept. 1966), p. 221, fig. 9

Timothy Trent Blade, "Two Interior Views of the Old Church in Delft," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 6 (1971), pp. 37-49, figs. 2, 8

Walter A. Liedtke, Architectural Painting in Delft: Gerard Houckgeest, Hendrick van Vliet, Emanuel de Witte, Doornspijk, 1982, p,. 43, figs. 30, 100.

Walter A. Liedtke, "Cornelis de Man as a Painter of Church Interiors," Tableau 5, no. 1 (1982) p. 65, ill. p. 64, no. 4.

Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1986), pp. 52, 341.

Ownership History

Mr. and Mrs. Morris I. Kaplan, Chicago, by 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1965.