Lot 228: DIRCK VAN DELEN

DIRCK VAN DELEN HEUSDEN CIRCA 1605 - 1671 ARNEMUIDEN A CHURCH INTERIOR WITH A ROYAL TOMB, PROBABLY THAT OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR RUDOLF II signed and dated lower left: dirck VAN/deleN/1629 inscribed with old inventory number lower right: 74 oil on panel 9 3/4 by 11 1/2 in.; 24.5 by 29 cm.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 December 1925, lot 41;
W.H.J. Wegg;
His posthumous sale et al., London, Christie's, 18 June 1954, lot 51;
Where acqired by Mrs. Pavica Mauthner;
By whose estate sold, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 2001, lot 161;
There purchased by the present owner.

Van Delen frequently incoporated the motif of particular tombs in his church interiors. Others include, for example, the Tomb of Willem the Silent in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft (1645, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) and that of the van Tuyll van Serooskerken family (1654, Karlsruhe, Kunsthalle).