A cowherd by a milk-churn gesturing towards two cows

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ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT (GORINCHEM 1566-1651 UTRECHT)
A cowherd by a milk-churn gesturing towards two cows
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, pen framing lines
6 x 4 3⁄8 in. (15 x 11.1 cm)

Provenance

with Claude Kuhn, Basel (Handzeichnungen Alter Meister, 1986, no. 31, ill.).
with Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 128.

Literature

J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert c. 1565-1651. The Drawings, Leiden, 2007, I, no. 687, II, fig. 687.

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Lot Essay

Jaap Bolten, who may never have seen the drawing in the original, suggests the cow may be worked up by a later hand (op. cit.). Rather, they seem to be done in the same ink as the pentimento in the cloak of the youth.

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