Venus and Bacchus (Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus would Frieze)

Prints and Drawings

1590–95

Abraham Bloemaert
Dutch, 1566-1651

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Abraham Bloemaert
Title: Venus and Bacchus (Without Ceres and Bacchus Venus would Frieze)
Origin: Netherlands
Date: 1590–1595
Medium: Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over traces of charcoal, heightened with opaque white watercolor (partially discolored), on buff laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, center, in graphite: “5411 / frb”; lower center, in graphite: “Donato Parigi / Sienna 1680”; lower right, in graphite: “Uytewal”
Dimensions: 147 x 195 mm
Credit Line: Regenstein Endowment Fund
Reference Number: 2020.256
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Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings, 2 vols. (Leiden: J. Bolten, 2007), no. 575, I: 202; II: 262 (ill.).

Dr. Curt Glaser (1879–1943), Berlin; sold, Max Perl, Berlin, May 18, 1933, lot 669, (as Wtewael,) to Richard Holtkott (1866–1950), Bedburg, Germany [his stamp (Lugt 4266), verso, lower left in purple ink]; by descent to his grandson, Kerry County, Ireland; sold to David Lachenmann, Zurich, around 1992 [email correspondence with David Lachenmann]; sold through Artemis Fine Art S.A., Vaduz, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2020.

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