Abraham Bloemaert

Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836) (according to a note in the van Regteren Altena collection files),

Iohan Quirijn van Regteren Altena (1899-1980), Amsterdam, by 1925,

by whose heirs sold, Amsterdam, Christie’s, ('The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection: Part IV'), 13 May 2015, lot 125,

where acquired

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 22, pl. 51 (catalogue by J. Giltaij)

Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Institut néerlandais, Bern, Kunstmuseum, Landschaptekeningen van Hollandse Meesters uit de 17de Eeuw, uit de particuliere Verzameling bewaard in het Institut néerlandais te Parijs, exhib. cat., 1968-69, pp. 17-18, under no. 17;

J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert: The Drawings, Leiden 2007, no. 1632;

R.S. Blok, in Goltzius to Van Gogh: Drawings and Paintings from the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, exhib. cat., Paris, Fondation Custodia, 2014-15, p. 136, under no. 61

Although stylistically reminiscent of drawings made by Bloemaert nearly fifty years earlier in his career, this work dates to 1650, just a year before the artist's death in his mid-80s. As previously noted, it is particularly close in spirit to two drawings of rocky landscapes dated 1605 and 1606 which are in the Fondation Custodia, Paris.¹ Our drawing can also be compared very closely to a similar Mountain landscape, also dated 1650, which is in the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam.²

^1.Paris, Fondation Custodia, inv. nos. 1391 and 1972-T. 56

^2.Blok, op. cit., no. 61