Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674)

The Way to Calvary; and The Mocking of Christ

Details

Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674)
The Way to Calvary; and The Mocking of Christ
red chalk, pen and grey ink, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with white on vellum, framed
338 x 294 mm. (2)

Provenance

An unidentified collector's label on the mount, with attribution to 'L. Bramer'.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1977, lots 127-8, illustrated (£495 and £550).

Literature

(2) M. Plomp, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674, Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, Zwolle Delft, 1994, pp. 198 and 314, no. 23, fig. 17.

Lot Essay

M. Plomp (loc. cit.) dates this to circa 1660-70 and believes that the drawings were to be regularly used by the artist. Other examples of such finished coloured drawings are in the Kunsthalle, Bremen, M. Plomp, op. cit., fig. 22.

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