Spring 2002 | Rotterdam

The Rotterdam Museum Boijmans has purchased an important drawing by the Utrecht painter Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), which was once part of the Johann Goll van Franckenstein Collection in Amsterdam. For details, scan the illustration with your mouse. The painting for which the drawing served as a model was already in the museum’s possession since 1937.

The drawing is executed in pen in brown ink, washed with brown ink and hightened with white bodycolour, on a large sheet of paper, measuring 231 by 378 mm. The drawing has been squared with black chalk for transferring the image to the canvas. It was published in the recent sale catalogue of the Dutch art dealer Bob Haboldt Northern European Old Master Drawings and Oil Sketches (New York/Paris 2001-2002), as no. 20 (with fold-out colour plate).