A poulterer in a fur hat holding a hen and a basket

Details

Circle of Hendrick Bloemaert (Utrecht 1601/2-1672)
A poulterer in a fur hat holding a hen and a basket
oil on canvas
29¾ x 24 7/8 in. (75.6 x 63 cm.)

Provenance

A. Croiset, The Hague, 1894.
Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 13 December 1991, lot 146, as Hendrick Bloemaert (sold £7,500).

Literature

M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Doornspijk, 1993, p. 458, under no. H32, 'Related Works: 1'.

Exhibited

Utrecht, 1894, no. 15, as Hendrick Bloemaert.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This was originally the pendant to a Boy with a fish still life, also in the Croiset collection when exhibited in Utrecht in 1894, and subsequently sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 1947, as from the School of Abraham van Beyeren (see Roethlisberger, op. cit., p. 510, no. H193). The composition of the present work relates to that of Hendrick's Poulterer with a fur hat of circa 1630 in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (inv. no. 331).

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