Interior of a Cathedral
Object type | Painting |
Genre | Staffage in Church Interior |
Date | ca. 1609 |
Dimensions | 45.2 x 63 cm |
Support | Panel |
Medium | Oil |
Signature | STEENWYCK 15(8)3 |
Collaborators | Hendrick van Steenwyck the Elder Hendrick van Steenwyck the Younger |
Collaborator notes | Either the Elder or the Younger |
Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #595 Ertz 1979, #203 |
Location | Budapest, Hungary |
Collection | Szépművészeti Múzeum |
Accession numbers | inv. #579 |
Tags | Dog, Church, Van Steenwyck, Painting Within A Painting, Burghers, Children, Interior Scene |
External resources | Szépművészeti Múzeum |
Howarth notes that the date is not fully legible and could be 1583 or 1593; he thinks that the former is more likely and that the architecture is by Steenwyck the Elder. The figures, he agrees, are contemporary with those in the Milan painting and so are from ca. 1609.
One of the paintings shown in this church appears to be Willem Key's The Penitent Sinners, painted for the pedlars' altar; it disappeared from Antwerp cathedral between 1581 and 1585. The architecture here does not faithfully represent the cathedral, though.