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St. Frederick. Verso: Studies of a Hand Holding a Small Plate

Abraham Bloemaert
1564-1651

St. Frederick. Verso: Studies of a Hand Holding a Small Plate

15 15/16 x 11 7/8 inches (404 x 302 mm)
Black chalk and brown wash, on paper; squared in black chalk.
1961.27

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

Notes
Watermark: fleur-de-lis within a shield, surmounted by a crown (cf. Heawood 1721a).
This quick sketch is a first draft that was followed by the more developed study in the Fodor Collection in the Amsterdams Historisch Museum.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at upper right in brown ink, "247"; at lower left, obliterated initials. On verso, at lower right, in brown ink, "Bloemaert".
Bibliography
Adams, Frederick B., Jr., comp. Twelfth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1963, p. 73-74.
Pierpont Morgan Library. Review of Acquisitions, 1949-1968. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1969, p. 133.
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. 18, no. 31 repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department