Live Auction 18844Chieveley House, Berkshire and Five Private Collections
Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754)
Lot 123 FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARONESS CARMEN THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA LOTS 100-123

Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754)

Saint Luke; Saint Mark; Saint Ambrose; Saint Gregory; Saint James the Great; Saint Matthias; Saint Jerome; Saint Augustine; Saint John the Evangelist; and Saint Matthew - en brunaille

Closed19 March 2020

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Jacob de Wit (Amsterdam 1695-1754)
Saint Luke; Saint Mark; Saint Ambrose; Saint Gregory; Saint James the Great; Saint Matthias; Saint Jerome; Saint Augustine; Saint John the Evangelist; and Saint Matthew - en brunaille
signed on the first 'Jd.Wit' (lower right); signed on the eighth 'JdWit' (lower right, linked); signed and dated on the ninth 'JdeWit / 1740' (lower left, 'JdeWit' in ligature)
oil on canvas, unframed
the first four 33 ¾ x 62 1/8 in. (85.8 x 157.7 cm.); the fifth and sixth 34 x 73 in. (86.4 x 185.2 cm.); the seventh 33 x 86 ½ in. (83.9 x 219.8 cm.); the eighth 33 ¾ x 87 7/8 in. (86 x 223 cm.); the final two 33 ½ x 41 ½ in. (85.2 x 105.8 cm.)
(10)a set of ten

Fransche Kerk, Amsterdam; their sale, Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 26 November 1912, lot 41.
Anonymous Sale, Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 20 June 1928, lot 9.
with Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam, where acquired by,
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, by October 1928.

Specialist note

This series of works by Jacob de Wit was executed for the Roman Catholic French Church on the Boommarkt (the current Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal) in Amsterdam in around 1740. The French Catholic Church, a so-called ‘clandestine church’, was tolerated by the Calvinist Dutch Republic in the wake of the Reformation partly due to the concealed facades of its churches, which were largely unrecognisable as places of worship from the exterior.

The ten studies for the church by de Wit are held in the Amsterdam Archives, see G. Vermeer, 'De Franse kerk aan de Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal', Binnenstad, no. 52 (290) p. 82-84 and a ninteenth-century lithograph of the church showing the present lot in-situ is held in the Noord-Hollands Archive in Haarlem.