LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk
Measurements:
6.81 in. (17.30 cm.) (height) by 6.73 in. (17.10 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
Winnipeg, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, ; Mother and Child, 1967, no. 143 (as Abraham Bloemaert);;
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ; Abraham Bloemaert, 1564-1651, 1973, no. 14 (as Abraham Bloemaert)
Literature:
F.W.H. Hollstein, ; Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, vol. VII, Amsterdam 1952, p. 172, no. 334, reproduced;;
J.P. Filedt Kok, 'Jacques de Gheyn II'. Engraver, Designer and Publisher, in ; Print Quarterly, vol. VII, no. 3 (1990), p. 259, note 35, and no. 4, p. 385, under no. 334 (as 'A. Bloemaert (?)');;
M.G. Roethlisberger, ; Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints, Doornspijk 1993, vol. I, p. 89, under no. 42, reproduced vol. II, fig. 77 ('attribution unnecessarily questioned by Filedt Kok');;
J.A. Bolten, ; Abraham Bloemaert. The Drawings, 2 vols., Leiden 2007, vol. I, p. 97, under no. 238, reproduced vol. II, p. 120, fig. 238b (as a drawn copy from the studio)
Provenance:
Bears unidentified collector's paraphe (not in Lugt);; <br>with Delphic Arts, New York;; <br>with H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1965 (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, no. 48, as Joachim Wtewael);; <br>David Daniels, New York,; <br>his sale, London, Sotheby's, 25 April 1978, lot 56 (as Abraham Bloemaert);; <br>sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 2 November 1987, lot 15 (as Abraham Bloemaert);; <br>with Sabrina Förster, Düsseldorf, 1989 (cat. no. 2, as Abraham Bloemaert)