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Leonard Bramer
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- Leonard Bramer
- twelve scenes from The Life of Christ
- All watercolour and gouache heightened with white on vellum
Provenance
Sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 12 November 1990, lot 119
Literature
M. Plomp, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674: Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exhib. cat., Delft, Museum het Prinsenhof, 1994, p. 313, no. 12
Catalogue Note
Bramer was one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his time and occupies a unique position in Dutch seventeenth-century art. He is perhaps best known for producing drawings in illustrative sets and series, treating a wide variety of themes from the Bible, classical mythology, classical history and popular literature.
The present series depict scenes from the The Life of Christ, a subject which Bramer illustrated repeatedly; no fewer than thirteen series of drawings on this theme are known.1 Bramer's coloured drawings of this type are usually thought to be later works; Plomp (loc. cit.) dates the present series, which must have contained at least 20 sheets, circa 1660-70.
1. Plomp, op. cit., p.183