PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF PROFESSOR EGBERT HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN
Abraham Bloemaert
RECTO: SEATED WOMAN, HEAD IN PROFILE VERSO: DRAPERY STUDY OF STANDING WOMAN
LOT SOLD.
16,250 USD
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Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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Abraham Bloemaert
GORINCHEM 1566 - 1651 UTRECHT
RECTO: SEATED WOMAN, HEAD IN PROFILE VERSO: DRAPERY STUDY OF STANDING WOMAN
Black chalk and brown wash, heightened with white (recto); black chalk and gray wash (verso)
303 by 184 mm; 11 7/8 by 7¼ in
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303 by 184 mm; 11 7/8 by 7¼ in
Provenance
The Marquesses de Bailleul,
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 17 April 1985, lot 8;
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 15 November 1993, lot 17
sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 17 April 1985, lot 8;
sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 15 November 1993, lot 17
Literature
J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, 2 vols., Leiden 2007, vol. I, pp. 306, no. 926 (recto), p. 346, no. 1074 (verso), reproduced vol. II, p. 355, fig. 926 (recto), p. 377, fig. 1074 (verso)
Catalogue Note
The recto of the present drawing, depicting a seated woman, seen three quarters from the back, corresponds very closely to a similar figure portrayed in Bloemaert's so-called "Cambridge Album",1 representing A sitting woman with a child. Bolten has suggested that the Haverkamp-Begemann drawing "would have been the first incentive"2 for the Cambridge Album drawing, which was subsequently engraved by Frederik Bloemaert as plate 95 of the Tekenboek (Fig.1). Bolten goes on to compare the handling of the present sheet, both in its style and execution, to two further drawings by Bloemaert, the first a study of The Madonna seated, the Christ child in her lap3 and the second A kneeling woman,4 previously in the Normand Collection.
1. For a more detailed discussion of the Cambridge Album see Bolten, op.cit., vol. I, pp. 362-397
2. Ibid., p. 306, no. 926
3. Ibid., no. 924
4. Ibid., no. 923
Suggested Lots
Old Master Drawings including the Collection of Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann
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