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Hendrick Bloemaert (Utrecht 1601/2-1672)
Lot 134

Hendrick Bloemaert (Utrecht 1601/2-1672)

Bathsheba

Closed30 October 2018

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Hendrick Bloemaert (Utrecht 1601/2-1672)
Bathsheba
signed 'H. Bloemaert fe.' (center right, on the fountain)
oil on canvas
27 x 34 ¼ in. (68.6 x 87 cm.)

H.S. Walker; Christie's, London, 30 July 1928, lot 59, as 'Venetian School, Vertumnus and Pomona' (3 gns. to B. Moore).
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Fievez, 23 December 1929.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, 18 December 1946, lot 261, as signed Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Brussels, Galerie Giroux, 19 March 1949, lot 107, as Abraham Bloemaert.
Anonymous sale; Antwerp, Campo, 1 December 1981, lot 306, as Manner of Abraham Bloemaert.
Private collection, Belgium, until recently.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Marcel Roethlisberger, who only knew the painting from black-and-white photographs at the time of his publication, for endorsing the attribution on the basis of photographs.