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ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT | The Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Bloemaert, Abraham
- The Virgin and Child with the Infant St. John
- Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, within a drawn circle
- 173 by 171 mm
Provenance
Bears unidentified collector's paraphe (not in Lugt);
with Delphic Arts, New York;
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1965 (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, no. 48, as Joachim Wtewael);
David Daniels, New York,
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1978, lot 56 (as Abraham Bloemaert);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 2 November 1987, lot 15 (as Abraham Bloemaert);
with Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf, 1989 (cat. no. 2, as Abraham Bloemaert)
with Delphic Arts, New York;
with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1965 (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, no. 48, as Joachim Wtewael);
David Daniels, New York,
his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1978, lot 56 (as Abraham Bloemaert);
sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 2 November 1987, lot 15 (as Abraham Bloemaert);
with Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf, 1989 (cat. no. 2, as Abraham Bloemaert)
Exhibited
Winnipeg, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Mother and Child, 1967, no. 143 (as Abraham Bloemaert);
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abraham Bloemaert, 1564-1651, 1973, no. 14 (as Abraham Bloemaert)
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abraham Bloemaert, 1564-1651, 1973, no. 14 (as Abraham Bloemaert)
Literature
F.W.H. Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vol. VII, Amsterdam 1952, p. 172, no. 334, reproduced;
J.P. Filedt Kok, 'Jacques de Gheyn II'. Engraver, Designer and Publisher, in Print Quarterly, vol. VII, no. 3 (1990), p. 259, note 35, and no. 4, p. 385, under no. 334 (as 'A. Bloemaert (?)');
M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints, Doornspijk 1993, vol. I, p. 89, under no. 42, reproduced vol. II, fig. 77 ('attribution unnecessarily questioned by Filedt Kok');
J.A. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert. The Drawings, 2 vols., Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 97, under no. 238, reproduced vol. II, p. 120, fig. 238b (as a drawn copy from the studio)
J.P. Filedt Kok, 'Jacques de Gheyn II'. Engraver, Designer and Publisher, in Print Quarterly, vol. VII, no. 3 (1990), p. 259, note 35, and no. 4, p. 385, under no. 334 (as 'A. Bloemaert (?)');
M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints, Doornspijk 1993, vol. I, p. 89, under no. 42, reproduced vol. II, fig. 77 ('attribution unnecessarily questioned by Filedt Kok');
J.A. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert. The Drawings, 2 vols., Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 97, under no. 238, reproduced vol. II, p. 120, fig. 238b (as a drawn copy from the studio)
Catalogue Note
This drawing was always considered to be the design, in reverse, for Jacques de Gheyn's print after Bloemaert.1 Another version of the same drawing, not circular in format, like the print, but with the outlines indented for transfer, is, however, now considered to be the prime version.2 1 See Hollstein, loc. cit., and Filedt Kok, loc. cit.
2 Bolten, op. cit., no. 238
2 Bolten, op. cit., no. 238