Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

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Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651)

The Annunciation to the Shepherds

black lead, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised) brown ink framing lines, watermark foolscap
135 x 226 mm.

Provenance

Anon. sale, M. Hertzberger, Amsterdam, 21 April 1964, lot 996
with T. Laurentius, Zaltbommel
J.A. van Dongen, Amsterdam
with C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1971

Exhibited

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abraham Bloemaert, Prints and Drawings, 1973, no. 25
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century, 1979, no. 1

Lot Essay

Professor Bolten has kindly confirmed the attribution and will include this in his catalogue raisonné, noting that there are several drawings of the subject, among others that sold in these Rooms, 18 November 1985, lot 12, illustrated

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