Interior of a Church, 1600/1610

Label: Detailed views of church interiors were produced throughout the Low Countries, and the genre grew in popularity and ambition during the first half of the seventeenth century. This view, featuring an altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, undoubtedly represents a space of Catholic worship. Even so, the church’s liturgical furnishings are particularly restrained and may reflect the wishes of a specific client. Grimmer painted at least one other version of this same church interior that included a much larger altarpiece in the mid-ground and a sculpted Crucifixion group on the ledge above, here decorated with candlesticks Exhibition label from "Image in Dispute: Dutch & Flemish Art from the Haggerty Museum of Art's Collection," 2023.

Exhibition History: Recent Gifts, Haggerty Museum of Art, 11/07/1996 - 01/26/1997 Old Masters from the Haggerty: Re-Seeing the Collection, Haggerty Museum of Art, 04/24/2008 - 12/07/2008 Image in Dispute: Dutch and Flemish Art in the Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Haggerty Museum of Art, 08/25/2023 - 05/12/2024

Publication History: Ivan Gaskell and Margaret S. Winthrop, An Offbeat Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings (Cambridge: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, 1993).