The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist

Details

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
The Virgin and Child with the Infant Baptist
pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (oxidized), the outlines incised, brown ink framing lines, octagonal, laid down on board
145 x 152 mm.

Provenance

An unidentified sale number '44 Lot 6-110'.
An unidentified sale number '..mes Sale n.12'.
Homer Wade, Florida, according to a typed label on the backing.

Engraved

In reverse, by J. de Gheyn (Hollstein VII, no. 334; J.P. Filedt Kok, Jacques de Gheyn II, Engraver, Designer and Publisher, Print Quarterly, London, 1990, p. 259, 385, see fig. 1).

Lot Essay

Professor Jaap Bolten kindly confirmed the attribution upon inspection of the drawing and dates it to circa 1593-5. The drawing will be included in his forthcoming catalogue of the artist's drawings. As indicated by the incisions, the present lot was used for the print by de Gheyn (M.G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, paintings and prints, Doornspijk, 1993, I, p. 89, no. 42, II, fig. 77). The authenticity of a less detailed version, not incised, offered at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 2 November 1987, lot 15, was doubted by Filedt Kok (op.cit.).

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