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We stand in the central nave of a deeply shadowed church looking down toward the altar in this horizontal painting. Sunlight streams in from our right to bathe white pillars lining the nave with light, and it illuminates a wooden stall, like a private seating box, situated in front of the columns to our left. The forehead, eyes, and one hand of a young child peeks over the top edge of one of the panels, perhaps peering at us. Touches of pale red and yellow suggest stained glass over the dimly lit altar at the far end of the church, across from us. Gold chandeliers with curling, scrolling…

The Interior of the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

Emanuel de Witte (Dutch, c. 1616 - 1691/1692)

c. 1660 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Patrons' Permanent Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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