drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1865,0114.830
- Description
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The Poulterer, study for a print; a man, three-quarter length, seated on a bench to front, wearing a feathered cap, holding a chicken in his arms, a basket on each side
Pen and brown ink, with red wash, heightened with white (oxidised), squared and with lines indented for transfer
- Production date
- 1627-1630
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 166 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Engraved in reverse by Cornelis Bloemaert, with a verse, see D,7.175.
Lit.: Sotheby's, New York, 10 January 1991, no.50, fig.50; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1992, no.24, fig.24; J. Bolten, 'Abraham Bloemaert. The Drawings', 2007, pp.263-4 (as by Hendrick Bloemaert).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1865
- Acquisition notes
- Further provenance: J. Gildemeester Jzn., Amsterdam (van der Schley and Pruyssenaar) 24 November 1800, kbk CC no.5 (as Abraham Bloemaert)
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1865,0114.830