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Abraham Bloemaert
1564-1651
Winter Landscape with Skater
Black chalk, with Pen and brown ink and wash, some red chalk wash and a little blue, on paper; framing line in black ink.
6 1/4 x 8 7/16 inches (159 x 215 mm)
Gift of Charles R. Blyth.
1979.2
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso at center, in graphite, "754 / ..."; at lower left, "c/8 [superscript c, dash below, subscript 8 underneath]".
Provenance:
Ernst J. Otto, Celle (Lugt S. 873b); C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf (Lagerliste 19, 1958, no. 9, DM80); P. & D. Colnaghi, London (their no. D 24328 Rx) inscribed on verso, in graphite; Bernard Houthakker, Amsterdam; Charles R. Blyth, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography:
Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 20, no. 36. repr.
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Watermark: none.
Associated names:
Otto, Ernst J., former owner.
Blyth, Charles R. (Charles Ramsay), 1934-, former owner.
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