Lot 132
  • 132

Hendrick Bloemaert

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • Hendrick Bloemaert
  • The poulterer with baskets
  • oil on canvas
oil on Canvas
99.1 by 81.3 cm.
Executed circa 1630's

 

Provenance

Probably, anonymous sale, The Hague, 31 March 1770, lot 26, as Abraham, for f.24 to Van Brakel;
Sale, Chester, 9 October 1986, lot 3408, as Dutch, c. 1700;
With Harari & Johns, London;
Private Collection, California;
Anonymous sale ('Property from an Estate'), New York, Sotheby’s, 22 May 1992, lot 24, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Doornspijk 1993, vol. I, p. 452, cat. no. H20, reproduced vol. II, fig. H25.

ENGRAVED
By Cornelis Bloemart the Younger (1606–1684; reversed, with variations).

Condition

The canvas is relined, the paint surface is clean, and the varnish is clear and even. There is retouching to a small vertical tear to the left of the figure's proper right shoulder, measuring approx. 5 cm. Inspection under ultraviolet light reveals a rather milky varnish, beneath which it is difficult to discern other intervention, but there appears to be a very small area of retouching on the upper left side of the figure's forehead, and another very small patch, less than 1 square cm., just above the sitter's other shoulder. The painting is otherwise in very good condition.
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