Abraham Bloemaert
Recto: Landscape with Cottage; Verso: Study of a Tree
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
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Abraham Bloemaert
(Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht)
Recto: Landscape with Cottage
Verso: Study of a Tree
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk (recto), black chalk (verso), within brown ink framing lines;
bears old attribution in blue crayon, verso: Pieter Molijn
198 by 181 mm; 7¾ by 7½ in.
Alfred Normand (1910-1993), Paris (L.153c),
his sale, Monaco, Christie's, 20 June 1994, lot 70;
with Thomas Williams (Fine Art) Ltd. and W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, Old Master Drawings, 1995, no. 14,
where acquired by Diane A. Nixon
J.A. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, 2 vols., Leiden 2007, vol. 1, p. 423, cat. 1429 and p. 468, under cat. 1588, reproduced vol. 2, p. 431
Professor Jaap Bolten dates this appealing farm scene to the first decade of the seventeenth century, pointing out that what appears to be the same cart-shed but seen from a different viewpoint features in both a print of 1605 by Jacob Matham, and another, by Claes Jansz. Visscher after an unknown prototype by Bloemaert, published in 1620.1
1.Bolten, loc. cit., under cat. 1588
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