Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Abraham Bloemaert
Recto: Study of a gnarled tree trunk and subsidiary studies Verso: Study of a tree
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Abraham Bloemaert
Gorinchem 1566 - 1651 Utrecht
Recto: Study of a gnarled tree trunk and subsidiary studies
Verso: Study of a tree
Pen and brown ink and wash with touches of coloured wash, over traces of black chalk, on paper washed light blue (recto and verso);
bears old attribution in brown ink, lower right: A. Bloemaert
and an old attribution on the mount: Bloemaert
235 by 325 mm
Though this fine, large double-sided sheet was unknown to the late Bloemaert scholar Jaap Bolten its subject and manner of execution allow it to fit very securely within a small group of tree studies by the artist that Bolten dated to circa 1595-1605.
One of these sheets is in the collection of the Kunsthalle, Bremen and depicts Three leafless trees1 while a second double sided drawing in the Getty, Los Angeles,2 has a verso that can, once again, be closely compared with the verso of the present work.
1. J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, Leiden/Oegstgeest 2007, vol.I, p.438 no.1488, vol.II, p.455, fig.1488
2. J. Bolten, 'The Drawings of Abraham Bloemaert, a Supplement,' Master Drawings, vol.55, no.1, 2017, p.102, no.a35, fig.330