ABRAHAM BLOMMAERT | An imaginary mountainous landscape, with figures, animals, and castle ruins beyond

With S. Nystad, The Hague, by 1952;

From whom acquired by F.C. Butôt, Amsterdam, 1954;

From whom acquired in 1978.

A. Blankert, Museum Bredius: catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, The Hague 1978, p. 30 (as Adriaan Bloemaert);

A. Blankert, Museum Bredius: catalogus van de schilderijen en tekeningen, The Hague 1991, p. 49, under cat. no. 14 (as Adriaan Bloemaert);

M.J. Bok and M. Roethlisberger, 'Not Adriaen Bloemaert but Abraham Blommaert (of Middleburg), Landscape Painter', in Oud Holland, vol. 110, 1996, p. 22, cat. no. 20, reproduced;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 3, Landschaften und Seestücke, Münster/Hamburg/London 2001, pp. 40-43, cat. no. 4, reproduced in colour;

W. Pijbes, M. Aarts, M.J. Bok et al, At Home in the Golden Age, exh. cat., Zwolle 2008, p. 98, cat. no. 95, reproduced in colour. 

A landscape painter active largely in Middleburg during the mid to late 17th century, Abraham Blommaert is not to be confused with Adriaen Bloemaert, an artist active in Utrecht (1609–1666) who was the son of similarly named Abraham Bloemaert. Around 65 works are known by Blommaert, many of which are comparable in style, handling, and subject to the present landscape. A related example that shares a similar detail of illuminated branches set against a darkened background is found today at the Museum Bredius in the Hague.¹

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