Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

Minerva

Details

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
Minerva
with inscription 'A. Bloemart' (verso, twice)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized), brown ink framing lines
139 x 112 mm.

Engraved

In reverse by Botius Adams Bolswert (Holl. 284).

Lot Essay

Engraved around 1610 by Bolswert as a pair with a Venus and Cupid M. Rthlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Ghent, 1993, no. 120, fig. 205. Together with these two plates Bolswert published another plate of a slightly freer technique representing Juno. Two sketchier drawings of Minerva are in Caen (Revue du Louvre, 1976, p. 337, illustrated) and Dsseldorf (Meisterzeichnungen der Slg. L. Krahe, 1970, no. 141).

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