A farmhouse

Details

ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT (GORINCHEM 1564/6-1651 UTRECHT)
A farmhouse
with inscription '4' (upper left)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, pen and brown ink framing lines
5 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (14.3 x 19.2 cm.)

Provenance

with Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam, 1962.
Hans van Leeuwen (1911-2010), Amsterdam; Christie's, Amsterdam, 24 November 1992, lot 19, where acquired by the present owner.

Literature

J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565-1651: The Drawings, I, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 430-431, no. 1461; II, p. 437, fig. 1461.
P.C. Sutton, The Martin and Kathleen Feldstein Collection, privately published, 2020, pp. 114-115, no. 31, illustrated.

Exhibited

Laren, Singer Museum, Nederlandse tekeningen: Collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 26 October-8 December 1963, no. 15.
Nijmegen, Museum de Waag, Tekeningen uit de collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 12 November-13 December 1965, no. 3.
Leeuwarden, Museum Princessehof, Tentoonstelling oude tekeningen uit drie eeuwen: Collectie Hans van Leeuwen, 5 February-8 March 1966, no. 4.
Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, Utrecht, 27 September-10 November 1968, no. 15.
Rheydt, Städtisches Museum Schloss Rheydt, Niederländische Zeichnungen des 17.-19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, Utrecht, 2 September-17 October 1971, no. 6.
Amsterdam, Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, De verzameling van H. van Leeuwen, 8 November 1975-1 February 1976, no. 15.
Utrecht, Centraal Museum, Nederlandse tekeningen uit drie eeuwen, 29 April-25 June 1978, no. 17.
Bremen, Kunsthalle Bremen, and elsewhere, Meisterzeichnungen aus drei Jahrhunderten: Niederländische Handzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 14 October 1979-10 February 1980, no. 15.
Fribourg, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, and elsewhere, Niederländische Meisterzeichnungen des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Hans van Leeuwen, 1982-1984, no. 10.

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Lot Essay

Farmhouses such as the one shown here, together with dilapidated houses and ruins, frequently appear in Abraham Bloemaert's drawings. These buildings, drawn on the spot, were often later used in the artist's more finished prints, drawings and paintings. This is also the case with the present drawing; it can be found in a more finished drawn composition, with the addition of shrubs, a milkmaid and animals in the foreground, which was previously with Bob Haboldt, Paris (see J. Bolten, op. cit., I, pp. 454-455, no. 1549; II, fig. 1549). Jaap Bolten dates the present sheet to circa 1595-1605 and the more finished version to circa 1615-1625.

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