Abraham Bloemaert
A Sheet of Animal Studies: An Eagle, a Stork, a Goat and a Donkey
None of the other animals depicted on the present sheet appear to be studies for engravings, although similar storks appear in a handful of prints designed by Bloemaert.
This drawing bears on the verso the collector’s mark of Paul Eeckhout (1917-2012), a Belgian architect, draughtsman and printmaker who served as a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent between 1948 and 1982.
Provenance: Paul Eeckhout, Ghent (Lugt 824a), his mark on the verso
His (anonymous) sale, London, Phillips, 7 December 1994, lot 90 (as Attributed to Abraham Bloemaert)
W. M. Brady & Co., New York and Thomas Williams, London, in 1995\
Private collection.
Literature: Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert: The Drawings, Leiden, 2007, Vol.I, p.400, no.1323, Vol.II, p.415, fig.1323 (as location unknown, and dated 1605-1610); Horace Wood Brock, Martin P. Levy and Clifford S. Ackley, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 2009, p.156, no.109, illustrated p.111.
Exhibition: New York, W. M. Brady & Co. Inc., and London, Thomas Williams (Fine Art) Ltd. at Daniel Katz Ltd., Old Master Drawings, Autumn 1995, no.13; Stanford University, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Classic Taste: Drawings and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Horace Brock, March-May, 2000; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance: European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no.109.
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