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Interior of the Oude Kerk in Delft
Also titled Interieur van de Oude Kerk in Delft
Gerard Houckgeest (The Hague, ca. –1661)
1654
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 48.7 cm x width 40.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Gerrit Houckgeest specialized in church interiors and the use of perspective. With great attention to detail, he has here captured how the sunlight, pouring through the stained-glass windows, casts coloured dots on the column in the middle. The painted green curtain is a witty illusionistic device, imitating the 17th-century custom of protecting paintings from light and dust with a curtain.
