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Abraham Bloemaert
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description
- Abraham Bloemaert
- Four studies including a reclining child, its head repeated, a drinking child and a woman's head
- Red chalk heightened with white with touches of pen and brown ink and black chalk, within brown ink framing lines;
bears numbering, upper right: 20
Provenance
With L. Houthakker, Amsterdam, by 1968;
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York;
Private Collection Paris;
Private Collection, Germany
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York;
Private Collection Paris;
Private Collection, Germany
Literature
J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 336, n. 1038, reproduced vol. II, fig. 1038
Catalogue Note
With its four partial figure studies and distinctive combination of media, this is a sheet of a type that is very familiar in Bloemaert's oeuvre. These drawings served various functions in Bloemaert's studio: as studies for paintings, as teaching aids to be used in the studio as examples of drawing techniques and methods, and as preliminary drawings for prints for the drawing manual which Bloemaert planned to publish, which only saw the light of day after his death. The study of a child drinking from a bowl in the upper right of the composition reappears, with changes in its position, in a painting entitled Liberalitas1, which was engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert the Younger (1602-1692) in 1625.2
1. See M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons: Paintings and Prints, Doornspijk 1993, vol. I, p. 264, no. 396, reproduced vol. II, figs 558-59
2. See F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam 1950, vol. II, p. 79, no. 285