id:			80648
accession number:	2020.141
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.141
updated:		2023-08-23 17:50:28.728000

A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, 1793. Johannes Huibert Prins (Dutch, 1757–1806). Brush, point of brush and brown ink and wash with traces of graphite on cream medium-weight wove paper; image and sheet: 29.8 x 32.8 cm (11 3/4 x 12 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.141

title:				A View of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft
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creation date:			1793
creation date earliest:		1793
creation date latest:		1793
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creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture:	Netherlands
technique:	Brush, point of brush and brown ink and wash with traces of graphite on cream medium-weight wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - Dutch
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Johannes Huibert Prins (Dutch, 1757–1806)  - artist

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 29.8 x 32.8 cm (11 3/4 x 12 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Brown ink stamp, verso, lower right
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "[illegible]"
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	inscription:	Written in brown ink on verso: "A?u de Niewe Kerk le (?) Delft van de agtenzede le zieu/F.H. Prins ad viv del 1793"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "[illegible/illegible]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	with Johan Bosch van Rosenthal, Amsterdam
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	Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
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fun fact:
On the bridge a laborer pushes a heavy parcel on a wheelbarrow aided by a woman who pushes him from behind.

digital description:
Johannes Huibert Prins made small-scale works on paper such as this drawing featuring scenes of Dutch cities and the people who inhabited them going about their everyday lives. In this drawing, the large Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in the city of Delft is shown from the side, while a matron fills a bucket for washing from the canal and laborers and other urban inhabitants cross the bridge beyond. Prins's technique, based on that of the artist Jan van der Heyden who worked about 100 years earlier, relied on minute detail—down to the mortar between each brick—achieved with astounding control of the ink and wash.

wall description:
This drawing by Johannes Huibert Prins features a humble scene in the Dutch city of Delft, emphasizing the everyday lives of its inhabitants. Rather than featuring the gothic spire of Delft’s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church), Prins depicted thechurch from the side, where a washerwoman fills a bucket from the canal. Laborers, such as a man with a heavy wheelbarrow aided by a woman pushing him from behind, go about their business on the stone bridge. Prins’s technique relied on minute detail—down to delineation of the mortar between each brick—achieved with astonishing control of ink applied with the point of a fine brush.
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IMAGES

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