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Saint Luke; Saint Mark; Saint Ambrose; Saint Gregory; Saint James the Great; Saint Matthias; Saint Jerome; Saint Augustine; Saint John the Evangelist; and Saint Matthew - en brunaille signed on the first 'Jd.Wit' (lower right); signed on the eighth 'JdWit' (lower right, linked); signed and dated on the ninth 'JdeWit / 1740' (lower left, 'JdeWit' in ligature) oil on canvas, unframed the first four 33 ? x 62 1/8 in. (85.8 x 157.7 cm.); the fifth and sixth 34 x 73 in. (86.4 x 185.2 cm.); the seventh 33 x 86 ? in. (83.9 x 219.8 cm.); the eighth 33 ? x 87 7/8 in. (86 x 223 cm.); the final two 33 ? x 41 ? in. (85.2 x 105.8 cm.) (10)a set of ten
This series of works by Jacob de Wit was executed for the Roman Catholic French Church on the Boommarkt (the current Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal) in Amsterdam in around 1740. The French Catholic Church, a so-called ‘clandestine church’, was tolerated by the Calvinist Dutch Republic in the wake of the Reformation partly due to the concealed facades of its churches, which were largely unrecognisable as places of worship from the exterior.