Abraham Bloemaert

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

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Description

Abraham Bloemaert
A sutler woman, resting in the field
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, squared in black chalk (recto), indented and blackened on the verso for transfer; top corners cut;
bears inscription, lower left: Ab. Blöemart and numbering, verso: 67 and 4 / 14 (?)

Provenance

Possibly Valerius Röver (1686-1739), Delft (bears numberings, lower left, verso, similar to his, L. 29841-c);
Benjamin Ansley,
thence by inheritance to his brother-in-law, Richard Collyer Andree, Stuttgart,
thence by descent to General von Hermann, Stuttgart;
Georg Sigmund Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden;
Private Collection,
sale, New York, Christie's, 24 January 2001, lot 155

Literature

J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 232, n. 661 and p. 382, under no. 1238, reproduced vol. II, fig. 661

Catalogue Note

Engraved:
In reverse by Frederick Bloemaert (fig.1)

Dr Jaap Bolten highlights in his catalogue raisonné of Bloemaert's drawings that the present work was one of a number chosen by Abraham's son, Frederick Bloemaert, to be engraved for his Tekenboek, which, although published in instalments during Abraham's own lifetime, was only published in full in 1740. When Frederick undertook to engrave the present work for the aforementioned project, as well as a number of other drawings executed by his father, Abraham drew another version of each sheet, the vast majority of which remain bound in the Cambridge Album,¹in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

The figure of the sutler woman was also used by Abraham Bloemaert in his painting The young thief ²and it is the dating of this painting to 1632 which gives us our most likely terminus ante quem for the present work.

^1. Bolten, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 362-397

^2. M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons, Ghent 1993, no. 499, fig. 683, reproduced