Description
Cornelis Christiaan Dommelshuizen
Dutch 1842-1928
The Statue of Liberty at Twilight
signed and dated lower right: Christian Dommelshuizen 1897.; further inscribed, signed and dated on the reverse: Entrance to New York Ch. Dommelshuizen / 1897
oil on canvas
canvas: 30 ¾ by 50 in.; 78 by 127 cm
framed: 36 ¾ by 56 in.; 93.2 by 142.3 cm
Provenance
In the collection of the Van Lookeren Campagne family since at least 1950
Exhibited
The Hague, Kunsthandel J.J. Biesing, 1898 (possibly)
Catalogue Note
The ship that is depicted is the ‘Amsterdam II’, acquired in 1887 by the NASM (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij), renamed in 1896 to the ‘Holland America Line’. The ship mainly sailed on the line from Rotterdam to New York. The Statue of Liberty, seen in the background, was erected eleven years before the creation of the present painting.
