Copy after Abraham Bloemaert

While the attribution of a roundel depicting Cimon and Pero attributed to Abraham Bloemaert was debated after Emil Reznicek and others suggested it was a copy, the original emerged at an auction in Antwerp and is now in a private Belgian collection.^1. Curiously the sheet bears a modern collector's stamp in purple ink on the verso indicating it was in the Godin-Deheselle collection, about which almost nothing is known. The stamp was first noted in 1969, and in 2011 it appeared on a group of prints in the same auction lot by Joseph Wagner after Jacopo Amigoni and Giuseppe Zocchi. For the sheet to have been acquired before 1941 by Glaser, it must have been stamped in the early decades of the twentieth century. A landscape by Jacob van der Ulft from the same collection (81-30/89), now in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, was owned by Ernst Jürgen Otto (b. 1906; L. 873b), suggesting that the Godin-Deheselle collection was available to German buyers at some point before the Second World War.
1. The original is in the collection of Cecile Kruyhooft, Antwerp; see Jaap Bolten, “The Drawings of Abraham Bloemaert: A Supplement,” Master Drawings 2017:1 (entire volume), fig. 157, cat. 591a/887a, and Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565-1651 The Drawings, Leiden, 2007, vol. 1, under no. 591 as a related work to the lost original.