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ABrAhAM BLoeMAert
gorinchem 1566 – 1651 Utrecht
2 Ruins of a Farmstead, c. 1585 – 1590
Pen in brown ink with brown and grey wash over black chalk
184 x 228 mm
literatUre:
Jaap Bolten, The Beginnings of Abraham Bloemaert’s Artistic Career.
in: Master Drawings, vol. XXXVi, no. 1, new York 1998, p. 24,
fn. 14
Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, The Drawings, leiden 2007, vol. i,
p. 407, fig. 1345a, ill. vol. ii, p. 419, 1345a
ProVenance:
collection Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden/Vienna (lugt 381)
hugo helbing, Munich, october 28 – 31, 1895, Collection B. Jolles,
no. 61
collection Michael Berolzheimer, garmisch-Partenkirchen
auktionshaus adolf weinmüller, Munich, March 9 – 10, 1939,
no. 108
albertina, Vienna (inv. no. 28119)
restituted to the heirs of Michael Berolzheimer in 2010
the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin owns a small group of drawings
with similar motifs by abraham Bloemaert known as the “Berliner
album”. these depict, in a slightly varying manner, farmsteads in
ruins, peasants’ huts and stables and were most probably created
in the region around Utrecht, the artist’s birthplace. our drawing
should be seen in the context of the “Berliner album”. it repeats
a motif in the album (inv. no. Kdz 236), but is a somewhat more
“decided and accomplished version” (Bolten 2007, p. 407).
the motif of the partially ruinous farmstead, one of the recurring
themes of abraham Bloemaert’s drawings, later also appears as the
subject of a painting (for ill. see roethlisberger 1993, vol. i, p. 310,
no. 482, fig. 664).