Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1564/66-1651 Utrecht)

A mountainous landscape with a waterfall

Details

Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1564/66-1651 Utrecht)
A mountainous landscape with a waterfall
signed (?) with initials 'AB' (the letters interlaced) and dated '1650', and with inscription 'Abloemaert' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey-blue wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), watermark foolscap, brown ink framing lines
22 x 31 cm.

Provenance

Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836) (according to a note in the collection files).

Literature

Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Institut néerlandais, Bern, Kunstmuseum, Landschaptekeningen van Hollandse Meesters uit de 17de Eeuw, uit de particuliere Verzameling bewaard in het Institut néerlandais te Parijs, exhib. cat., 1968-69, pp. 17-18, under no. 17.
J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert: The Drawings, Amsterdam, 2007, no. 1632.
R.S. Blok, in Goltzius to Van Gogh: Drawings and Paintings from the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, exhib. cat., Paris, Fondation Custodia, 2014-15, p. 136, under no. 61.

Exhibited

Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 22, pl. 51 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

This drawing dates from the year before the artist's death at the age of 86, although remarkably similar in style to that of fifty years earlier. It is very close in spirit to two drawings of rocky landscapes dated 1605 and 1606 which are in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (inv. 1391 and 1972-T. 56), as well as an etching by Boëtius Adams Bolswert (circa 1580-1633), after a landscape by Bloemaert executed in 1615 (Hollstein 357). The drawing can also be compared to the Mountain landscape, dated 1650 like this one, which is in the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam (inv. B 492; Blok, op. cit., no. 61). Two further comparable landscapes dated 1650 were sold in these Rooms, 1 December 1986, lot 8.

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