Lot 39: * ANTHONIE DE LORME PARIS 1610-1673

signed and dated lower left A. de Lorme 1668

INTERIOR OF THE LAURENSKERK, ROTTERDAM, VIEW TO THE SOUTH

33 1/2 by 27 in.; 85.1 by 68.6 cm.

oil on canvas

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATES OF ARTHUR AND W. SÉVÉRINE FRANKEL

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Paul Brandt Gallery, May 11-14, 1971. nr. 23;
Brink;
By whom (anonymously) sold, New York, Sotheby's Parke Bernet, Inc., November 3, 1972, lot 42, (as The Choir of a Church, Possibly the Groote Kerk, Delft);
There purchased for $3,500 by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Frankel.

We are grateful to Marijke C. de Kinkelder of the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, The Hague who, on the basis of photographs, has confirmed the present painting to be a view of the Laurenskerk in Rotterdam by de Lorme. She also notes that another signed work from 1662 in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles (inv. no. 78 PA 69) shows the same spot but from a closer viewpoint.