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Head of a Bearded Man and a Drapery Study of a Seated Figure Waist-high

Head of a Bearded Man and a Drapery Study of a Seated Figure Waist-high

Abraham Bloemaert (in circa 1595-1600)

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Title Head of a Bearded Man and a Drapery Study of a Seated Figure Waist-high
Material and technique Black and red chalk on a partial red chalk ground
Object type
Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 181 mm
Width 252 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Abraham Bloemaert
Accession number AB 6 verso (PK)
Credits Gift L.P.J. Stracké, 1884
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1884
Creation date in circa 1595-1600
Signature none
Watermark none (vV, 7P, fine)
Inscriptions ‘Abr. Bloemaart / studie voor het leggende / Beeld in den Boodschap aan de Herders’ (verso, in pencil)
Mark Museum Boymans Rotterdam (L.288)
Provenance Leo P.J. Stracké (1851-1923), Rotterdam, by whom presented to the museum, 1884
Exhibitions none
Research Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Literature Cat. 1901, p. 23, no. 41; Bolten 2007, no. 918 (recto), no. 1077 (verso)
Material
Object
Geographical origin The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

Entry catalogue Netherlandish Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Author: Albert J. Elen

The reclining figure is connected to another drawing in Braunschweig and a print (in reverse image) by Chrispijn de Passe after a design by Bloemaert, both after a lost painting of the Annunciation to the Shepherds from around 1600.1 The two drawings differ from the print in which the outstretched lower leg is covered. The drapery study on the reverse is similar to two sketches of a seated St John in Bristol (mirror view) and Poughkeepsie.2 According to Bolten the red chalk drawing may be an offprint (Abklatsch or contre-épreuve) from another drawing, judging from the faint chalk lines.

Footnotes

1 Hollstein 1964, vol. XV, p. 137, no. 85, ill.; Bolten 2007, no. 76, vol. 2, ills. 76a, 76b.

2 Bolten 2007, nos. 254 and 255.

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Abraham Bloemaert

Gorinchem 1566 - Utrecht 1651

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