Abraham Bloemaert

Dutch, 1566 - 1651

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Dutch painter (1566–1651)

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The head, shoulders, and chest of a pale-skinned man with gray hair and deep wrinkles creasing his face fill this vertical portrait painting. His shoulders angle slightly to our right, and he looks up and off in that direction. Light comes from our upper left, so the far side of his craggy face is in deep shadow. His brown eyes are deep-set sockets under a furrowed brow. He has a straight, prominent nose, and his thin lips are surrounded by wrinkles at the corners with more lines on his knob-like chin and between his nose and upper lip. Tendons and wrinkles stand out on his thick neck. Unruly locks of ash-gray hair stand up from his head over a pink-edged ear. His upper chest is bare within the gaping opening of his nickel-gray shirt, which is under a barn-red garment. The background is earth brown.
Abraham Bloemaert, Head of an Old Man, 1625/1628, oil on panel, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2010.93.41

Head of an Old Man

Abraham Bloemaert · 1625/1628 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2010.93.41

Abraham Bloemaert, Landscape with Seated Figure and Dog, c. 1620, black chalk and pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, incised for transfer and blackened on verso, Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith, 1978.81.1

Landscape with Seated Figure and Dog

Abraham Bloemaert · c. 1620 · black chalk and pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper, incised for transfer and blackened on verso ·  Accession ID  1978.81.1

Abraham Bloemaert, Ritual Washing of the Israelites, 1606, black chalk and pale blue-green wash on laid paper, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, 1978.52.2

Ritual Washing of the Israelites

Abraham Bloemaert · 1606 · black chalk and pale blue-green wash on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1978.52.2

Abraham Bloemaert, Boëtius Adams Bolswert, Juno, c.1610, etching on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.120

Juno

Abraham Bloemaert, Boëtius Adams Bolswert · c.1610 · etching on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.120

Abraham Bloemaert, Acis and Galatea, c. 1590, pen and brown ink with brown wash and traces of white heightening over black chalk on laid paper, Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner, 2006.11.7

Acis and Galatea

Abraham Bloemaert · c. 1590 · pen and brown ink with brown wash and traces of white heightening over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2006.11.7

Abraham Bloemaert, The Virgin in Glory, pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white over black chalk on blue paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1979.3.1

The Virgin in Glory

Abraham Bloemaert · · pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white over black chalk on blue paper ·  Accession ID  1979.3.1

Abraham Bloemaert, Studies of Hands and Bending Figures [verso], red chalk heightened with white, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1984.71.1.b

Studies of Hands and Bending Figures [verso]

Abraham Bloemaert · · red chalk heightened with white ·  Accession ID  1984.71.1.b

Abraham Bloemaert, Studies of Legs and Drapery [recto], red chalk heightened with white, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1984.71.1.a

Studies of Legs and Drapery [recto]

Abraham Bloemaert · · red chalk heightened with white ·  Accession ID  1984.71.1.a

Abraham Bloemaert, Seated Bishop, pen and brown ink and chalk with brown wash heightened with white, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1971.77.1

Seated Bishop

Abraham Bloemaert · · pen and brown ink and chalk with brown wash heightened with white ·  Accession ID  1971.77.1

Bibliography

1604

  • Mander, Karel van. Het Schilder-boeck. Haerlem, 1604: fol. 297f.

1662

  • Bie, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst. Antwerp, 1662. Reprinted Soest, 1971: 43–46.

1675

  • Sandrart, Joachim von _Der Teutschen Academie_Zweyter Theil, Nürnberg, 1675: 298.

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 1:43-44.

1845

  • Baldinucci, Filippo. Notizie dei professori del disegno.... Ed. F. Fanalli. 5 vols. Florence, 1845-1847: 3 (1846): 623–626.

1989

  • Ruurs, Rob. “The Date of Abraham Bloemaert’s Birth.” Hoogsteder-Naumann Mercury, no. 9 (1989): 4–6.

1993

  • Roethlisberger, Marcel G. Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints. 2 vols. Doornspijk, 1993.

1997

  • Seelig, Gero. _ Abraham Bloemaert, 1566–1651: Studien zur Utrechter Malerei um 1620_. Berlin, 1997.