# Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VLIET, Hendrick Cornelisz. van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 83 x 66 cm ## Commentary The painting presents a view of the Oude Kerk from the south aisle looking northeast. This kind of diagonal arrangement was <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/h/houckgee/oudekerk.html'\)" href="/html/h/houckgee/oudekerk.html">first employed by Gerard Houckgeest</a> in 1650-51. Van Vliet adopted this scheme, but not Houckgeest careful fidelity to specific views in the Oude Kerk and Nieuwe Kerk in Delft. In the present painting, for example, the proportions of the architecture vary somewhat from those found at the site. ## Related artworks - [Church Interior]() - [Girl Holding a Fan]() - [Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft]() - [Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, from beneath the Organ Loft at the Western Entrance]() - [Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft, with the Memorial Tablet of Adriaen Teding van Berkhout]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, with the Tomb of Admiral Tromp]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft, with the Tomb of Piet Hein]() - [Portrait of a Cleric]() - [Portrait of Michiel van der Dussen and His Family]() - [Sketchbook]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()