Abraham Bloemaert

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Abraham Bloemaert

1564-1651

A Warrior in Classical Armor

ca. 1630-1640

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper.

6 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches (156 x 118 mm)

Bequest of Mrs. Ernest Ash.

1981.35

Notes:

Watermark: pot with two handles and tulip with leaves arising from it. (Heawood 3671: Middelburg and Haarlem 1633). Watermark, beta radiograph. pot two handles, foliage, tulip, heart. 128130wm_1981_35_WM_beta.jpg

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso, in graphite, "Bloemart fec"; numbered at lower left, "10".

Provenance:

Dr. Curt Glaser, former director of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; his widow; Maria Milch Glaser, later Mrs. Ernest Ash, New York.

Associated names:

Glaser, Curt, 1879-1943, former owner.
Ash, Ernest, Mrs., former owner.

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. 33.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 238.

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