Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

Interior of the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam

SK-A-3738

Interieur van de Portugese synagoge te Amsterdam tijdens een joodse dienst. Op de voorgrond een groep toeschouwers met kinderen en honden.

painter: Emanuel de Witte

1680

oil on canvas

height 110 cm x width 99 cm

1670 - 1680

purchase 1949-06

Public domain

…; collection Wilhelm Krause (1803-64), Berlin; from his wife, 850 DM (50 Freidrichsdor) to the Königliche Gemäldegalerie, later the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin, 1847 (on loan to the Gemäldegalerie in Wiesbaden from 1884 till 1918 or later);{Von Stockhausen 2000, p. 339, no. 730; coll. cat. Wiesbaden 1918, p. 56, no. 230.} exchanged with the dealer Galerie van Diemen & Co, Berlin, for another Interior of the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam by Emanuel de Witte, between 1925 and 1927;{Manke 1963, p. 121, nos. 206, 207.} … ; purchased by Anton Jurgens (1867-1945), Nijmegen, London?, and New York, 1928 or 1929;{Manke 1963, p. 121; London 1929, no. 312.} mentioned in his collection, 1935;{Rotterdam 1935a, pp. 39-40, no. 120.} ? from whose estate sold to the dealer B. Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1949;{Kaplan 2000, p. 44, note 60.} from whom, £ 1,250, to the dealer Duits, 1949;{GRI, Acc. no. 860290, Duits Ltd. (Gallery: London, England) records, 1920-1979, box 14, diary 1949.} from whom, fl. 31,061, to the museum, 1949;{Provenance reconstructed in Manke 1963, p. 121, no. 206.} on loan to the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, since May 2006

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Yosef Kaplan, 'For whom did Emanuel de Witte paint his three pictures of the Sephardic Synagogue in Amsterdam?', Studia Rosenthaliana 32 (1998).
• E. van Voolen, 'Gezicht op de Grote en de Portugese Synagoge te Amsterdam', Bulletin van de Vereniging Rembrandt 19 (2009) nr. 1, p. 11.

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