Name: Antique Master Print-OLD-WOMAN-WITH-ROSARY-Bloemaert-c.1625-1630
SKU: PICTURA-08895
Availability: InStock

Antique Master Print-OLD-WOMAN-WITH-ROSARY-Bloemaert-c.1625-1630

€345.00

‘BELOW IMAGE: A. BLOEMAERT PINXIT / CORN: BLOEM: SCULPSIT / H. THIELE EXCUD. LATIN INSCRIPTION: QUOD TROCHUS EST PUERO, IUVENI VENABULA, FIRMAE / ETATI GLADIUS, PIETATIS ID ARMA SENECTAE.’

– Portrait of an old woman, absorbed in prayer, holding a rosary with coarse, oversized hands. She wears a headscarf and simple garments.

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Description

Medium: Engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 15.3 x 23.2 cm (6.02 x 9.13 inch). Image size: 15.3 x 23.2 cm. (6.02 x 9.13 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Some remains of paper on rear from attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

OLD WOMAN, ROSARY, DUTCH REALISM, BLOEMAERT, GOLDEN AGE, 17TH CENTURY PRINT, RELIGIOUS DEVOTION | EXPO-DUTCH

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Based on a lost painting by Abraham Bloemaert. Engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert II, executed c.1625-1630.

State: 2nd. State.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch, Cornelis Bloemaert 10; Liedtke, Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 2, p. 850.

Provenance: .

Biography engraver: Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603-1692), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver, son of Abraham Bloemaert, trained under Gerard van Honthorst and Crispijn van de Passe. Spent most of his life in Rome, celebrated for reproductive engravings of Italian masters and Jesuit publications. Member of the Bentvueghels (“Winter”).

Biography artist: Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651), was a Dutch painter and printmaker, a leading figure in Utrecht and teacher of many prominent artists. Known for religious, mythological, and genre works in a refined yet realistic style.