The Derelict Church of Sloten
Artists:
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- Uidentifisert kunstner, Rembrandts skoleby erroneous tradition
- Creation date: Mellom 1650 og 1652
About
In 1903 the National Gallery acquired several Old Master drawings that had belonged to J. C. Dahl, including The old and the new church at Sloten. It was uncertain, however, whether the drawing was in fact by Rembrandt and which church ruin it depicted.
The drawing remained overlooked until 1973, when the Rembrandt scholar Egbert Haverkamp Begemann saw it and immediately verified its authenticity. Haverkamp Begemann was familiar with Frits Lugt’s handwritten catalogue of Rembrandt’s drawings, where the drawing at hand was identified on the basis of an eighteenth-century etching, but presumed lost. However, a collector’s stamp on the reverse of the drawing shows that it once belonged to J. Pz. Zoomer, who was a friend of Rembrandt’s son Titus, and it is thus highly probable that it was Rembrandt who drew it. Haverkamp Begemann recognized the image because of Roeland Roghman’s seventeenth-century etching, labelled “Oü en nieue Kerk te Sloten”. Sloten is a small village southwest of Amsterdam.
Rembrandt drew the ruins, the new church, and the vegetation with a fine pen on a sheet of paper he had coated with a shade of light brown. Even though parts of the drawing have been done in great detail, the lines are free and the drawing seems to have been executed on site; that Rembrandt took his drawing tools with him while wandering about the environs of Amsterdam can be seen from a number of his works. The fence in the foreground, which has been drawn with a coarser pen, is assumed to be a later addition that was not based on reality but added to round out the picture’s composition.
- Creation date:
- Mellom 1650 og 1652
- Other titles:
- Den gamle og den nye kirken i Sloten (NOR)
- Object type:
- Drawing
- Materials and techniques:
- Penn på papir
- Material:
- Laid paper, thin
- Dimensions:
- Height: 118 mm
- Width: 179 mm
- Keywords:
- Visual art
- Classification:
- 532 - Bildende kunst
- Motif:
- Church
- Motif - type:
- Architecture
- Inventory no.:
- NG.K&H.B.15804
- Cataloguing level:
- Single object
- Acquisition:
- Purchased 1903
- Owner and collection:
- Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design, The Fine Art Collections
- Photo:
- Andreas Harvik/Lathion, Jacques
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Other works by Rembrandt van Rijn
The Descent from the Cross by TorchlightRembrandt van Rijn1654 (plate)
Salmacis and HermaphroditusNicolaes MaesBegynnelsen av 1650-tallet
Portrait du Connetable de BourbonKarl Köpping1886 (plate)
Kopi etter "Rembrandts mor i bønn"Johan Christian Dahl, Rembrandt van Rijn1812- Kristi begråtelseBernard Picart1730 (plate)
Saskia van Uylenburgh. After RembrandtFrøydis Haavardsholm(1913)
A Scholar in his StudyFerdinand BolAntakelig 1640-årene
The Descent from the CrossUidentifisert, engelskAntagelig 1700-tallet
Portrait of a man / TronieUidentifisert kunstner, Rembrandts skoleca. 1645
Portrait of Willem BurggraeffUkjent kunstnerAntagelig siste halvdel av 1700-tallet- RembrandtCharles Errard, Rembrandt van RijnEtter 1674 (plate)
The Raising of the Daughter of JairusUidentifisert kunstner, Rembrandts skoleAntagelig midten av 1600-tallet

















































