Published on The Morgan Library & Museum (https://www.themorgan.org)

Home > Abraham Bloemaert

Abraham Bloemaert

Zoom image
Download image: 
Image icon 128135v_0001.jpg
Abraham Bloemaert
1564-1651
The Holy Family at the Foot of a Tree
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, olive-green wash, with white opaque watercolor, on paper tinted light pink-tan; lightly traced with the stylus.
9 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches (241 x 182 mm)
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
I, 229
Inscription: 

Numbered at upper left of old mount, in graphite, "168".
Inscribed on verso of old mount, in three different hands, in graphite, "A true drawing and very good W / Bloemaert has been called the German Baroccio / True. has been engraved Ph".
Watermark: Serpent wrapped around staff, centered between chain lines. Lead white on drawing is visible in beta radiograph.

Provenance: 
Unidentified English collector; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.
Watermark: 
Download watermark: 
Image icon 128135wm_I229_Bloemart_WM_beta.jpg
Associated names: 

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 229, repr.
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. 29, repr.

Catalog link: 
See more information ยป
Artist page: 
Bloemaert, Abraham
School: 
Netherlandish
Century: 
16th century
Classification: 
Drawing
Department: 
Drawings and Prints