A New York Dutch interior for the American Wing

 

 

 

Pl. V. Painted window made by Evert Duyckinck (c. 1620-c. 1700), New York City, c. 1656. Painted glass and lead, 22 3/8 by 15 1/2 inches. Decorated with the Van Rensselaer coat of arms, this window was a gift to the Dutch Reformed Church of Beverwyck (Albany) from Jan Baptist Van Rensselaer (c. 1629-1678), patron of the manor of Rensselaerswyck, in 1656. After the church was demolished in 1805, the window was installed at the head of the staircase in the Van Rensselaer manor house, which itself was demolished in 1893. Metropolitan Museum of Art, bequest of Mrs. J. Insley Blair.