Name: Antique Master Print-JONGEN-VOGELNEST-BIRD NEST-Anonymous-Bloemaert-c.1640?1670
SKU: PICTURA-10537
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Antique Master Print-JONGEN-VOGELNEST-BIRD NEST-Anonymous-Bloemaert-c.1640?1670

€145.00

‘[ORIGNAL TEXT:] DOEN ICK DIT NESTKEN VANT ICK HEBBET WT GENOMEN. / ICK DOCHT DIE VINT DIE HEEFT DAAR MOCHT EEN ANDER COMEN.’

– A boy looking down into his hat, in which a bird has built a nest. The composition has a quiet, tender atmosphere and contains a moralistic couplet in Dutch beneath the image. Originally engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert after a design by Hendrick Bloemaert.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 11.5 x 16.3 cm (4.53 x 6.42 inch). Image size: 11.5 x 16.3 cm. (4.53 x 6.42 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Mild foxing, corners slightly rounded. Collector’s stamp and handwritten crayon text (of a previous owner?)on verso. Text under print cut off. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CORNELIS BLOEMAERT, HENDRICK BLOEMAERT, BIRD’S NEST, DUTCH GENRE PRINT, 17TH CENTURY, MORAL ENGRAVING, BOY WITH BIRD, W.E. LEDGER, LUGT 2636, ROETHLISBERGER H8 | PCO-C49-01

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: Roethlisberger H8-copy.

Provenance: Collector’s mark Lugt 2636 (W.E. Ledger).

Biography engraver: Cornelis Bloemaert II (c.1603?1692) was a Dutch engraver known for his reproductive engravings after painters, particularly in Rome. This print is a copy of one of his engravings.

Biography artist: Hendrick Bloemaert (c.1601?1672), Dutch painter, son of Abraham Bloemaert. Known for portraits and religious scenes in a Caravaggist style, often with genre elements.