Cornelis Springer

(Amsterdam 1817 - Hilversum 1891)
The Carillon Tower in Edam
Signed and dated 79 l.r.
With artist's seal on the reverse
Oil on panel, 62 x 48 cm
Provenance:
- Collection G.H. Matthijssen, Leeuwarden (acquired in 1880)
- Collection Fetter, Amsterdam
- Collection Stania State, Oenkerk (from 1939)
- Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, The Hague (1951) (inv.no. S. 513000)
- Collection A.F. Lodeizen, Wassenaar (from 1955)
- Auction Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 7 May 1974, lot 1062
- Private collection, the Netherlands
Exhibition:
- Kunsthandel Pieter A. Scheen, The Hague, 1951, no. 21
- Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Nederlandse Architectuurschilders 1600-1900, 28 June - 28 December 1953, no. 91
- Museum Prinsenhof, Delft, De Romantische School, 23 December 1955 - 12 February 1956, no. 108
Literature:
- Stania-State Museum, Museum gids, Oenkerk, 1939, no. 209
- C. Basoski, 'Romantiek in een Straatje te Edam' in Nieuwe Haagsche Courant, 28 September 1951 (ill.)
- P.A. Scheen, Lexicon Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars 1750-1950, The Hague, 1970, vol. II, no. 202 (ill.)
- W. Laanstra, H.C. de Bruijn & Dr J.H.A. Ringeling, Cornelis Springer (1817-1891), Tableau, Utrecht, 1984, p. 197, no. 79-6 (ill.)
- A. Ligthart, Door het oog van Cornelis Springer, Scriptum, Schiedam, 2015, p. 110, ill. 136 (as Lingerzijde met Speeltoren te Edam)
N.B.I:
Registrated at the RKD - Institute for Dutch Art History in The Hague under number 37284, as Gezicht in Edam.
N.B.II:
Depicted is the Lingerzijde, with the impressive Speeltoren or Kleine Kerktoren. The tower is the only remnant of the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk that still can be visited today, for the church was demolished in 1882.