Lot Essay
We are grateful to Marcel Roethlisberger, who only knew the painting from black-and-white photographs at the time of his publication, for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs.
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Bathsheba
Details
Hendrick Bloemaert (Utrecht 1601/2-1672)
Bathsheba
signed 'H. Bloemaert fe.' (center right, on the fountain)
oil on canvas
27 x 34 ¼ in. (68.6 x 87 cm.)
Bathsheba
signed 'H. Bloemaert fe.' (center right, on the fountain)
oil on canvas
27 x 34 ¼ in. (68.6 x 87 cm.)
Provenance
H.S. Walker; Christie's, London, 30 July 1928, lot 59, as 'Venetian School, Vertumnus and Pomona' (3 gns. to B. Moore).
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Fievez, 23 December 1929.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 18 December 1946, lot 261, as signed Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Galerie Giroux, 19 March 1949, lot 107, as Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Antwerp, Campo, 1 December 1981, lot 306, as Manner of Abraham Bloemaert.
Private collection, Belgium, until recently.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Fievez, 23 December 1929.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 18 December 1946, lot 261, as signed Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Galerie Giroux, 19 March 1949, lot 107, as Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Antwerp, Campo, 1 December 1981, lot 306, as Manner of Abraham Bloemaert.
Private collection, Belgium, until recently.
Literature
M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons, Doornspijk, 1993, I, p. 476, no. H74, II, fig. H76, as 'Almost certainly a copy after a lost original'.
Special notice
This lot is offered without reserve.