Pieter Dirksen

An unknown painting of Sweelinck’s organ het ORGEL 95 (1999), nr. 3, 32-34 [summary]

A recently rediscovered painting attributable to Emanuel de Witte (ca. 1617-1692) contains a fascinating side-view of the large 1542 Niehoff-organ as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck had known it. This fact as well as its stylistic traits make it possible to date the painting at ‘ca. 1657’. It forms a pendant to a larger painting by De Witte made from the same standpoint, which is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Carter Collection).

Emanuel de Witte, interior of the Oude Kerk at Amsterdam (ca. 1657)

Link:

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art [http://www.lacma.org]