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Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

A seated Shepherdess and Studies of a kneeling Woman (recto); A Cottage (verso)

black chalk heightened with white, pen and brown ink (recto), black chalk, pen and brown ink (verso)
153 x 178 mm.

Lot Essay

Professor Dr. Jaap Bolten has kindly confirmed the attribution and will include the drawing in his forthcoming catalogue raisonné. The studies of the squatting woman on the recto were engraved in reverse by François Boucher in plate 3 of his Livre d'Etude, P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, Paris, 1978, no. 177, illustrated

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