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Interior of a Protestant, Gothic Church, with a Gravedigger in the Choir
Also titled Interieur van een protestantse, gotische kerk, met een grafdelver in het koor
Emanuel de Witte (Alkmaar, 1617–1692)
1669
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 44.5 cm x width 33.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The depiction of church interiors was a separate speciality. De Witte was one of the last 17th-century artists to concentrate on these perspectival masterpieces. This painting offers an oblique ‘through-view’ into a church. The columns in the foreground lead the eye into the distance. In the background the light falls on a gravedigger; it was customary for eminent citizens to be buried in churches.
