Een begrafenis in Laurenskerk te Alkmaar
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115 A Funeral in the St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar
Pen and brown ink, brown and grey wash. Framing line in pen and black ink. Middle left, repaired tear.
Verso: top edge strengthened with a strip of paper taken from a cashbook and fragmentarily inscribed with the dates 1669 and 1670 (pen and brown ink).
264 x 408 mm.
Watermark: Lily in crowned coat of arms (cf. Churchill, no. 401).
Chain lines: 25-27 mm. (h).
Signed and dated, lower right: Doomer 1692 (pen and brown ink).
Inscribed on verso, lower centre: De Grote kerck t Alcmaar (pen and brown ink, handwriting of the artist); lower left: h 10 d / b 16 d / Doomer f 1692 / gebooren s hertogenbosch 1650 / Discipel van Rembrand (pen and brown ink; handwriting of C. Ploos van Amstel; cf. L. 3002-04); f SO (pencil); Q 32 (pencil).
Stamped on verso, lower left, with the collector's mark of C. Ploos van Amstel (L. 2034) and with the mark of the Museum (L. 2392).
Provenance: J. Tonneman; his sale, Amsterdam, 21 October 1754 (Lugt 845), E 14, bt. Busserus (f 21.10); H. Busserus; his sale, Amsterdam, 21 October 1782 (Lugt 3469), no. 59, bt. Ploos (f 86.10); C. Ploos van Amstel; his sale, Amsterdam, 3 March 1800 (Lugt 6031), E 12, bt. Hendriks for the Museum (f 81.-).
Inv. 1854: R 21; 1864: Q 32.
Inv. no.: Q 48.
Bibliography: Scholten 1904, p. 200 (erroneously as from the collection of C. van Noorde); Von Wurzbach 1906-11, I, p. 414; Kleinmann 1913, IV, 46; Buisman 1924, p. 8, pl. 32; Bernt 1957-58, I, no. 187, repr.; exh. Brussels...Bern 1968-69, p. 40, under no. 35, note 5; Schulz 1972, II, pp. 49, 328-29, no. 217; Schulz 1974, pp. 21, 73, no. 145, fig. 72; exh. New York/Paris 1977-78, p. 49, under no. 31, note 5; Sumowski, Drawings, II (1979), no. 374, repr.
It is not known whose funeral is depicted here in the choir of the late Gothic Grote- or St. Laurenskerk in Alkmaar. Three relatively expensive funerals took place there in April and May of 1692, viz. those of the Mayors Jacob Vrijburg, Pieter Jansz. van Steenhuijsen en Pieter Adriaense Schagen, in that order (kind communication from Mrs. P.A.A. van Vliet-Mak, Gemeentearchief Alkmaar, letter of 31 May 1989). The ceremony shown here is possibly one of these three. Doomer, who lived in Alkmaar from 1669 to 1695 (cf. Wortel 1929, pp. 171-87), made two other drawings of the Grote Kerk (Sumowski, Drawings, II, nos. 426.1 [Amsterdam, private collection] and 426.2 [Düsseldorf, Kunstmuseum]). The present sheet was acquired from the Ploos van Amstel collection together with a View outside Nantes (CCC 6). Hendriks may have kept the latter for his own collection, since it cannot be located in the Museum (cf. Introduction, p. 0). Perhaps this second drawing and the Doomer which he purchased in 1799 (see No. 113) are identical with the two landscapes by that artist, mentioned in Hendriks' sale catalogue of 27 February 1832 (Lugt 12887)(C 4*).


Object numberQ 048
TitleEen begrafenis in Laurenskerk te Alkmaar
Creator Lambert Doomer (1624-1700) (tekenaar)
DescriptionKerkinterieur met een begrafenis op de achtergrond en links op de voorgrond een vrouw met een kind op de arm.
Production placeAlkmaar
Production date1692
Date (free text)gedateerd
Subjecttopografie (NL): Alkmaar: Grote Kerk, topografie (NL): Haarlem, kerkinterieur, begrafenis, vrouw, kind
Object nametekening
Materialpapier
Techniquepen in bruin, penseel in bruin, penseel in grijs, pen in zwart
Dimensions
- papier hoogte: 264 mm
papier breedte: 408 mm
opzet hoogte: 480 mm
opzet breedte: 616 mm
Documentation
Related object
Inscription creator/content
Doomer 1692
De Grote kerck t Alcmaar
h 10 d / b 16 d / Doomer f 1692 / gebooren s hertogenbosch 1650
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