Live Auction 3054The I.Q. van Regteren Altena Collection Part IV
Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1564/66-1651 Utrecht)
Lot 125

Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1564/66-1651 Utrecht)

A mountainous landscape with a waterfall

Closed13 May 2015

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Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1564/66-1651 Utrecht)
A mountainous landscape with a waterfall
signed (?) with initials 'AB' (the letters interlaced) and dated '1650', and with inscription 'Abloemaert' (verso)
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown and grey-blue wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), watermark foolscap, brown ink framing lines
22 x 31 cm.

Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836) (according to a note in the collection files).

Specialist note

This drawing dates from the year before the artist's death at the age of 86, although remarkably similar in style to that of fifty years earlier. It is very close in spirit to two drawings of rocky landscapes dated 1605 and 1606 which are in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (inv. 1391 and 1972-T. 56), as well as an etching by Boëtius Adams Bolswert (circa 1580-1633), after a landscape by Bloemaert executed in 1615 (Hollstein 357). The drawing can also be compared to the Mountain landscape, dated 1650 like this one, which is in the P. & N. de Boer Foundation, Amsterdam (inv. B 492; Blok, op. cit., no. 61). Two further comparable landscapes dated 1650 were sold in these Rooms, 1 December 1986, lot 8.