Rijksmuseum

Interieur van een protestantse, gotische kerk, met een grafdelver in het koor

Date

1669

Medium

panel, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

The depiction of church interiors was a separate speciality. De Witte was one of the last 17th-century artists to concentrate on these perspectival masterpieces. This painting offers an oblique ‘through-view’ into a church. The columns in the foreground lead the eye into the distance. In the background the light falls on a gravedigger; it was customary for eminent citizens to be buried in churches.

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