Johannes Huibert Prins, A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.141 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Johannes Huibert Prins

A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft

1793

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
Brush, point of brush and brown ink and wash with traces of graphite on cream medium-weight wove paper
Dimensions
29.8 × 32.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-209777

Johannes Huibert Prins made small-scale works on paper such as this drawing featuring scenes of Dutch cities and the people who inhabited them going about their everyday lives. In this drawing, the large Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the city of Delft is shown from the side, while a matron fills a bucket for washing from the canal and laborers and other urban inhabitants cross the bridge beyond. Prins's technique, based on that of the artist Jan van der Heyden who worked about 100 years earlier, relied on minute detail—down to the mortar between each brick—achieved with astounding control of th…

Provenance

Keithley Collection Gift, 2020.141

Registry history

  • 1793 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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