The Adoration of the Shepherds

Details

Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1566-1651 Utrecht)
The Adoration of the Shepherds
signed 'A. Bloemaert fe:' (lower right)
oil on panel
50.7 x 38.5 cm.
the support incised with a mark WG (linked)

Provenance

with J.N. Streep, New York, before 1956.

Literature

The Burlington Magazine, C, June 1958, no. 663, p. 225, illustrated.
M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons: Paintings and Prints, I, Doornspijk, 1993, p. 370, no. 667.1.

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Sale room notice

Please note that picture has not been published in The Burlington Magazine.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Professor M. Roethlisberger for confirming the attribution after examining the picture in the original. He believes the present lot to be a relative late work by the artist, to be be dated towards the 1620s.

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