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This is a painting of a Gothic-style cathedral interior. The building features tall, cream-colored arches and vaulted, ribbed ceilings. There are framed artworks above wooden pulpits with lit candles on them, and dark gray statues high on the walls. A light blue sky is visible through tall windows, and the floor is a checkered white-and-black pattern, occasionally disrupted by rectangles of gray and white. Men, women, and children dressed in vibrant clothing walk across the floor or kneel by altars.
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This is a painting of a Gothic-style cathedral interior. The building features tall, cream-colored arches and vaulted, ribbed ceilings. There are framed artworks above wooden pulpits with lit candles on them, and dark gray statues high on the walls. A light blue sky is visible through tall windows, and the floor is a checkered white-and-black pattern, occasionally disrupted by rectangles of gray and white. Men, women, and children dressed in vibrant clothing walk across the floor or kneel by altars.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Antwerp Cathedral

Peeter Neeffs the Elder

Date
c. 1650/1655
Medium
oil on copper
Dimensions
overall: 15.3 x 23.1 cm (6 x 9 1/8 in.) framed: 23.5 x 31.1 x 4.1 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/4 x 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
1960.6.29
Credit line
Timken Collection
Time span
1601 to 1650
Department
CNE-B
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • Baroque
  • genre
  • Flemish
  • Religious
  • Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century
  • interior
  • architecture
  • Cathedral
  • Antwerp
  • Genre scene
  • interior scene
Provenance

Raoul Tolentino, Florence; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 21-27 April 1920, no. 890); William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.

Inscription

center left on base of column: P. NEEFFS

NGA object ID 46053. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.