Live Auction 7714Old Master & British Pictures
Christie’s roundel
Lot 1

Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1566-1651 Utrecht)

An elderly man, bust-length, in a brown coat and hat; and An elderly woman, bust-length, in a brown coat and headscarf

Closed24 April 2009

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GBP 133,250

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Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1566-1651 Utrecht)
An elderly man, bust-length, in a brown coat and hat; and An elderly woman, bust-length, in a brown coat and headscarf
both signed and dated 'A Bloemaert. fe 1634' (upper left)
oil on panel
14¾ x 11 in. (37.5 x 27.9 cm.)
a pair (2)

Counts Wallmode, Hanover, sold in 1819 to
The Princess Schaumburg-Lippe, Bückeburg castle, near Hanover, and by descent until sold in 1939 to Lohse.
with Lohse, Munich and Berlin.

Specialist note

These are the first of three pairs of heads by the artist from the mid-1630s. While both figures recur with some variations in several works of the subsequent years, they are described by Roethlisberger as 'a very personal expression of the artist' (op. cit., p. 330).