Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

A dovecot with a barn in the background (recto); A barn (verso)

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Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
Bloemaert, A.
A dovecot with a barn in the background (recto); A barn (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown, red and yellow wash on light brown paper
5.7/8 x 8 in. (150 x 202 mm.)

Lot Essay

Bloemaert depicted the same dovecot, always with small variations, in many pictures, prints and drawings: from a different angle in a picture and a print both datable to about 1624, in a print of the 1620s, in the foreground of a picture executed circa 1630, in the background of Tobias and the Angel of 1629, in a picture of 1630-5, and on the left of the picture of The expulsion of Hagar of 1638, M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Doornspijk, 1983, figs. 552 and 554, 647, 660, 664, 696 and 733.