Attributed to Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

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Attributed to Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

Venus, Ceres and Bacchus

with inscription 'SPRANGER'; pen and brown ink, grey wash heightened with white (partly oxidised), brown ink framing lines
146 x 192 mm.

Provenance

Dr. J. Schouten, Delft
with C. Deirkauf, Utrecht, 1973

Literature

C.J.A. Wansink, Van Bloem- en andere 'aertse' geneugten op een tekening in de verzameling Van Leeuwen, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 1987, 38, 1988, pp. 397-401, pl. 1

Exhibited

Laren, 1963, nr. 128 (as J. Wtewael)
Nijmegen, 1965, no. 5 (as J. Wtewael)
Bonn/Saarbrücken/Bochum, 1968/9, no. 164 (as J. Wtewael)
Rheydt, 1971, no. 89 (as J. Wtewael)
Amsterdam, 1975/6, no. 149 (as J. Wtewael)
Utrecht, 1978, no. 19 (as J. Wtewael)
Bremen/Braunschweig/Stuttgart, 1979/80, no. 168 (as J. Wtewael)
Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Van Schaamte Ontbloot, 1987/8, no. 47 (as attributed to A. Bloemaert)

Lot Essay

This was long attributed to Joachim Wttewael. As Wansink (op.cit.) observed this is related to a picture by Bloemaert which was on the London art market in 1972. Professor Bolten connects it to a drawing of similar subject and technique in a private collection, Ireland, and suggests both may be by Bloemaert or one of his pupils. The subject 'Sine Cecere et Baccho friget Venus' is taken from Terentius' Eunuch cited in Ovid by Karel van Mander in 1604

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