The Circumcision by Abraham Bloemaert
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The Circumcision

Abraham Bloemaert · 1601

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf (1884–1974), London [stamp (Lugt 2811b) twice, on verso of secondary support and recto lower right of mount, in black]. Paul Drey, London, 1971. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 23, 2008, lot 137, to Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York and Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.; sold by Jean-Luc Baroni, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., July 6, 2012; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 156-58, 160 (ill.), 280, 289, cat. 54, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.

Literature

Published references

  • Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints (Davaco: Ghent, 1993), 2 vols. 1:94, under no. 48, vol. I, p. 94 and cat. No. D7, p. 422, reproduced vol. II, fig.108.
  • J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings, 2 vols. (Leiden: J. Bolten, 2007), vol I: p. 56, no.112, vol II: p. 63 (ill.).
  • Bob Haboldt, ed., Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.’s Old Master Paintings and Drawings Since 1983  (Amsterdam, New York, Paris: Haboldt & Co., 2012), p. 66 (ill.).

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