Abraham Bloemaert

A rugged coastal landscape with two figures

Auction Closed

January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Juli and Andrew Wieg Collection, Amsterdam

Abraham Bloemaert

Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht

A rugged coastal landscape with two figures

Pen and dark brown ink and brown wash over black chalk, indented for transfer

151 by 241 mm; 6 by 9 ½ in

Possibly G. Schroder, sale, Amsterdam, De Winter & Yver, 20 February 1764, lot 474 (to Busserus);
Possibly H. Busserus, sale Amsterdam, Van der Schley & Maarszen, 21 October 1782;
Acquired by Richard Holtkott (1866-1950) in Germany, 29 August 1932,
by descent until sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 14 November 1994, lot 88

J.A. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 467, no. 1586, reproduced vol. II, p. 478, fig. 1586

Engraved: B.A. Bolswert (Hollstein III, p. no. 356)

As Dr. Jaap Bolten has noted, this is the design for the nineteenth in a series of twenty etchings by Bolswert, after landscape drawings by Bloemaert. Bolten dates these to 1605-6, and compares this drawing stylistically with another, dated 1605, in the Lugt Collection.¹

1. Paris, Fondation Custodia, F. Lugt Collection, inv. I 1319; Bolten, op. cit., no. 1527