Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

A young girl sleeping at the side of a road

细节

Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)
A young girl sleeping at the side of a road
with inscription 'Ab. Blöemart'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, squared in black chalk, the verso rubbed with black chalk, some of the outlines incised, the upper corners cut, fragmentary watermark trefoil
77/8 x 65/8 in. (200 x 169 mm.)

来源

Benjamin Ansley (d. 1842), by descent to his brother-in-law
Richard Collyer Andre, Stuttgart, and thence by descent to
General von Hermann, Stuttgart.
Dr. Georg Siegmund Graf Adelman von Adelmansfelder, by whom given to the present owner.

刻印

In reverse by Frederick Bloemaert.

拍品专文

The attribution has been kindly confirmed by Jap Bolten who pointed out that the drawing is related in reverse to plate 126 of Bloemaert's Tekenboek engraved by the artist's son Frederick, M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Gent, 1993, no. T126). The first edition of this 'book of drawings' was published between 1650 and 1656 and contained 120 plates. In the 1650s Frederick engraved a further 46 plates which were not published until 1740. According to Marcel Roethlisberger, Abraham used as models for the engravings a group of sheets he drew from 1620 onwards. When Frederick undertook to engrave his father's drawings, Abraham drew another version of each sheet, all of which are now bound in an album in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
The present drawing, from the first group, was probably executed around 1632 when Bloemaert used this figure in a picture of The young thief now in a private collection in London, M. Roethlisberger, op. cit., no. 499, fig. 683.