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)
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
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.
Exhibitions
Literature
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).