Artworks

Abraham Bloemaert

Studies of Three Arms and Hands, 1620s-1630s

Red chalk, pen and brown ink, on buff paper, with framing lines in brown ink

31 x 32 cm (framed)

Part of an album of drawings by Abraham Bloemaert belonging to the artist André Giroux, Paris

The posthumous vente Giroux, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 18-19 April 1904, part of lot 175

(‘Etudes de personnages, de paysages et d’animaux. Cent trente-six dessins, la plupart

exécutés à la sanguine, un certain nombre avec d’autres croquis au verso’), the album thence broken up and the drawings dispersed

Galerie Patrick Perrin, Paris, in 1990

James F. Bismuth, Neuilly-sur-Seine

Thence by descent.

Paris, Patrick Perrin, De Callot à Tiepolo, Paris, n.d. (1990), unpaginated, no.33

Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert: The Drawings, Leiden, 2007, Vol.I, p.350, no.1094,

Vol.II, p.380, fig.1094 (where dated between 1595 and 1605).

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