
Codie Lyons
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Head of Department, Private & Iconic Collections, North America

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Provenance
Sale, Knight, Frank and Rutley, London, 9-10 May 1961, Lot 40;
Sale, Christie's, London, 17 July 1970, Lot 135;
With Central Picture Galleries, New York, December 1971 (as The Great Church in Amsterdam);
Private Collection, California;
Roy T. Eddleman.
Literature
Maillet, B. G. Intérieurs d'Églises, 1580-1720: La Peinture Architecturale des Écoles du Nord. Wijnegem, 2012, no. M-0142, p. 201, illustrated.
The present example of the artist's work marks a turning point in the way he composed his church interiors. Prior to circa 1626 van Bassen painted mainly monumental Renaissance-type church interiors, with a view down the centre of the nave, although the inclusion of a pronounced transept or side chapel distinguished his work from the traditional tunnel perspective of the Antwerp painters (after 1626 his interiors became less symmetrical with the vanishing point less apparent and moved to the side). Himself an architect as well as an artist, van Bassen's most important sources for his paintings were the works of the Antwerp architectural painters, the prints of Vredeman de Vries and the published editions of Italian architectural books and print series.