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Studies of a Standing Figure, a Head and a Pointing Right Hand

Studies of a Standing Figure, a Head and a Pointing Right Hand

Abraham Bloemaert (in circa 1610-1620)

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Title Studies of a Standing Figure, a Head and a Pointing Right Hand
Material and technique Red chalk, heightened with white
Object type
Drawing (recto) > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location This object is in storage
Dimensions Height 272 mm
Width 170 mm
Artists Draughtsman: Abraham Bloemaert
Accession number MB 1961/T 41 recto (PK)
Credits Transfer Museum Rotterdam, 1961
Department Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date 1961
Creation date in circa 1610-1620
Signature none
Watermark large crowned coat of arms (of Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, 1567-1625, double quartered with postal horn, rampant lion, walking lion, bend and heart shields) (vH, 7P)(137x83 mm, on P3-6 from the left), housemark TCVH in ligature beneath, apart from the intials very similar to Heawood 606 (no place, 1601 or after) and Churchill 154 (no place, 1616). The same watermark is found in inv. no. AB 11 by Bloemaert and in a Bloemaert drawing in the Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv. no. 1985-T.29 (Boon 1992, no. 13) [click thumbnails for images]
Inscriptions none
Mark C. de Valori (L.2500), E. Rodrigues (L.897)
Provenance Charles Ferdinand Louis, Marquess de Valori-Rustichelli (1820-1883), Paris; Eugène Rodrigues (1853 1928), Paris; sale [Adama van Scheltema/Sigwalt], Amsterdam (Muller), 11-14 June 1912, no. 23, fl. 23; Museum Rotterdam; transferred to the museum, 1961
Exhibitions none
Research Show research Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Literature Bolten 2007, no. 1079
Material
Object
Technique
Heightened with white > Drawing technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin The Netherlands > Western Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Netherlandish Drawings of the 15th and 16th Centuries.

Author: Albert J. Elen

The main figure is primarily a drapery study, presumably in preparation for a standing figure in a large composition, to be executed in oil on canvas. The head of a young man with a hat at top left is similar to a study on a sheet in the Cambridge Album.1 There is no painting with which these studies can be connected.

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1 Bolten 2007, no. 1182.

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Abraham Bloemaert

Gorinchem 1566 - Utrecht 1651

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