Lot 130: Dirck van Delen (Heusden, near s'Hertogenbosch 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)

Dirck van Delen (Heusden, near s'Hertogenbosch 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)
The interior of a Gothic church with elegant figures, a hound in the foreground
oil on panel
27¼ x 45 in. (69.2 x 114.3 cm.)
painted with the Dessau collection initials of 'VD' (on the panel reverse)

Schloss Ballenstedt, Ducal House of Anhalt, inv. no. 3653.
Dispossessed in the Soviet Occupied Zone (later the German Democratic Republic), after 8 May 1945.
Restituted to the Ducal House of Anhalt.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 8 December 2006, lot 190 (£63,000) to the present owner.

Dirck van Delen (Heusden, near s'Hertogenbosch 1604/5-1671 Arnemuiden)
The interior of a Gothic church with elegant figures, a hound in the foreground
oil on panel
27¼ x 45 in. (69.2 x 114.3 cm.)
painted with the Dessau collection initials of 'VD' (on the panel reverse)