Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870)

The Westpoort at Rhenen

Details

Andreas Schelfhout (1787-1870)
The Westpoort at Rhenen
inscribed and signed 'De Westerpoort te Rhenen A. Schelfhout' (verso)
pencil, black chalk, grey wash, black chalk framing lines, watermark Strasburg lily with letters LVG
292 x 320 mm.

Provenance

J. Schouten, Delft
with Deirkauf, Utrecht, 1959

Exhibited

Zeist, 1960, no. 54
Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 110
Utrecht, 1978, no. 95
Bremen/Braunschweig/Stuttgart, 1979/80, no. 122
Fribourg/Passau/Trier/Aachen/Nuremberg, 1982/3, no. 90

Lot Essay

One of the most popular sites in Dutch landscape art since the seventeenth Century, picturesque Rhenen, provided Schelfhout with an appealing subject. The present drawing shows the gate through which Schelfhout would have entered the city, illustrating its state after its 1752 restoration, but before its reconstruction during the 1840s. This gate looked very different when Rembrandt drew it (O. Benesch, The drawings of Rembrandt, no. 826). The Westpoort also appears in a lithograph by B.C. Koekkoek

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