Saint Roch and the Angel

Details

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
Saint Roch and the Angel
black chalk, brown wash heightened with white on light brown paper
68 x 56 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 11 November 1997, lot 17.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. REMOVALS Pictures (sold) will be held at Christie's for 28 days after the sale. Pictures not collected by 3.30pm on the 28th day following the sale will be transferred to:- Cadogan House, 2 Relay Road, London W12 8SJ. Tel:440(2)87353700. Fax:44(0)87353701. Pictures (unsold) will be held at Christie's for 10 days after the sale. Pictures not collected by 3.30pm on the 10th day following the sale will be transferred to Cadogan House.

Lot Essay

Professor Jaap Bolten has noted that this group is seen from a different angle in a drawing in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 8105), and that the figures seen here appear, with different effect, in Bloemaert's painting of A farm landscape with Tobias and the Angel in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Doornspijk, 1993, no. 478, fig. 660.

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