id: 145450 accession number: 1971.1 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.1 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:27.581000 Interior of a Church, c. 1680. Emanuel de Witte (Dutch, c. 1617–1692). Oil on canvas; framed: 89.5 x 80.5 x 6.5 cm (35 1/4 x 31 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 62 x 54 cm (24 7/16 x 21 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1971.1 title: Interior of a Church title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1680 creation date earliest: 1675 creation date latest: 1685 current location: 213 Dutch Painting creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Emanuel de Witte (Dutch, c. 1617–1692) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 89.5 x 80.5 x 6.5 cm (35 1/4 x 31 11/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 62 x 54 cm (24 7/16 x 21 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1971 opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe opening date: 2010-10-17T00:00:00 Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 17, 2010-January 17, 2011). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Theodor Stroefer [1843-1927], Nürnberg date: Until 1927 footnotes: citations: Family of Theodor Stroefer, Nürnberg date: 1927-1937 footnotes: citations: (Julius Böhler, Munich, Stroefer sale, Oct. 28, 1937, no. 122 [13,000 Reichsmarks, sold to Curt Bohnewand)1 date: 1937 footnotes: *
The price list, annotated with buyers' names, of the Bayerisches Wirtschaftsarchiv's copy of the Stroefer sale catalogue shows that the de Witte was sold to "Bohnewald" [sic].
citations: Curt Bohnewand [1888-1966], Berlin and Rottach-Egern, Germany1 date: 1937 - 1969 footnotes: *
1Bohnewand, a successful tobacconist and art collector, purchased the de Witte at the Stroefer sale according to the price list in the Böhler archives.  Ilse Manke’s 1963 monograph on de Witte situates the painting in 1953 with “Kunsthandel Steinmeyer, Munich,” a gallery founded by Julius Wilhelm Böhler and Fritz Steinmeyer in Lucerne (not Munich).  This reference is most likely erroneous, as the painting remained with Bohnewand until his death and was sold in the posthumous sale of his collection in 1969.   Prior to Steinmeyer, Manke gives the following provenance, in reverse chronological order: Bohnewand; a Berlin private collection; and Stroefer.  The Berlin private collector is likely Bohnewand, given what we know about his dates of ownership of the painting. Volume XXXVI of Thieme-Becker, published in 1947, also situates the painting in a Berlin private collection, which, again, must refer to Bohnewand. The provenance given by Thieme-Becker for the CMA painting lists the Stroefer sale and then notes, “zuletzt bei Ed. Plietzsch,” which indicates that the most recent owner had been Eduard Plietzsch. Plietzsch was specialist in Dutch and Flemish painting who played a large role in the development of Goering’s collection as the chief assistant to Kajetan Mühlmann, a major figure in the Nazi art confiscations.  The reference to Plietzsch in connection with the CMA painting appears incorrect: First, we know that the painting was with Bohnewand from 1937 until his posthumous sale in 1969.  Second, there is no documentary evidence confirming Plietzsch’s ownership of this painting, and in fact, it’s possible that at some point the provenance of the CMA painting was confused with that of other paintings of church interiors by de Witte that were connected to Plietzsch, whether before or after the Stroefer sale:  Interior of a Church was confiscated from the Jaffe collection (Munich Central Collecting Point no. 4061) by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, and two de Witte church interior scenes appear in the liquidation sales of the Berlin branch of Plietzsch’s gallery, Galerie van Diemen (Paul Graupe, Jan. 25th and April 26th, 1935).  
citations: (Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Bohnewand sale, March 28, 1969, no. 25, probably sold to Schaeffer Galleries) date: 1969 footnotes: citations: (Schaeffer Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Probably 1969-1970 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1971- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Julius Böhler. Sammlung Theodor Stroefer, Nürnberg: [freiwillige Versteigerung der alten Gemälde und Plastiken der Sammlung Theodor Stroefer, Nürnberg durch Julius Böhler…28 Oktober 1937]. Munich: Julius Böhler, 1937. page number: url: Schmidt, Robert, Friedrich Winkler, and Otto von Falke. Aus der Sammlung Curt Bohnewand. Munich: F. Bruckmann, n.d. [c. 1944?] page number: Mentioned: pp. 13, 50; Reproduced: p.29 url: Bohnewand, Curt. Aus der Sammlung Curt Bohnewand. [Berlin?]: C. Bohnewand, 1944. page number: url: Trautschold, Eduard, in Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907. page number: Mentioned: vol. 36 (1947) p. 125 url: Manke, Ilse. Emanuel de Witte, 1617-1692. Amsterdam, Netherlands: M. Hertzberger, 1963. page number: Reproduced: p. 105, no. 114 url: Kunsthaus Lempertz. Sammlung Curt Bohnewand. 1969. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1971." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (January 1972): 3-46. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 57 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412 Stechow, Wolfgang. "A church Interior by Emanuel de Witte." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no.10 (October, 1972): 228-235. page number: Reproduced: p. 228, fig. 1 url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 157 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n177 The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Entry by Jean Kubota Cassill. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 290; Reproduced: p. 291 url: Ford, Terence, ed. RIdIM/RCMI Inventory of Music Iconography, no 8: The Cleveland Museum of Art, compiled by Ross Duffin. New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986. page number: Mentioned: p. 9, no. 186. url: Maillet, Bernard G. Intérieurs d'églises: la peinture architecturale des écoles du nord: 1580-1720. Wijnegem, Belgium: Pandora Publishers, 2012. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 482 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.1/1971.1_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.1/1971.1_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.1/1971.1_full.tif