Studio of Gerrit Berckheyde (Haarlem 1638-1698)
Lot 135

Studio of Gerrit Berckheyde (Haarlem 1638-1698)

A view of the Dam with the new Town Hall, the Nieuwe Kerk and the Waag, Amsterdam

Closed9 December 2015

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GBP 30,000

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Studio of Gerrit Berckheyde (Haarlem 1638-1698)
A view of the Dam with the new Town Hall, the Nieuwe Kerk and the Waag, Amsterdam
signed? 'G. Berckheide' (lower right)
oil on canvas
75.3 x 91.4 cm.

J.R. West, Stratford-on-Avon, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
with R. Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Possibly with J. Goudstikker, Amsterdam, by 1919, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
with Sam Bernard Levie (1887-1943), Amsterdam, prior to 10 May - 15 September 1940, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Possibly with D.A. Hoogendijk & Co., Amsterdam, 15 September 1940 - 27 January 1941, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Landesmuseum, Bonn, 27 January 1941 - May 1945, as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Transferred to the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, October 1945 (inv. no. NK1978), as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Dienst voor Rijksverspreide Kunstvoorwerpen, The Hague (NK1978), as ‘Gerrit Berckheyde’.
Restituted to the heirs of S.B. Levie, represented by
Mondex Corporation of Toronto, Canada, 10 March 2014.

Specialist note

This picture is a studio version of Berckheyde’s masterpiece in the Staatliches Museum, Schwerin.