Winter

• The Winter
• Winter

SK-A-3233

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 surname, Wit (Dutch: ‘white’).

painter: Jacob de Wit

1740

olieverf op doek

• depth 5.5 cm
• height 101 cm x width 98 cm

M.C.C. Reynvaan Bequest, Elspeet

bequest 1934-07

Public domain

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.

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