Lot 6012* - ibid129 Old Master Paintings - online only - Wednesday, 28. September 2022, 01.00 PM
ABRAHAM BLOMMAERT
(Middelburg circa 1626–1693 Amsterdam)
Broad landscape with herders and goats before a castle. 1665.
Oil on panel.
Signed lower right: A: Blommaert. Monogrammed and dated centre bottom: A. 1665.
45.7 × 64 cm.
Provenance:
Collection, Basel.
Abraham Blommaert was a Middelburg-based painter whose works have long been confused with those of Adriaen Bloemaert (c. 1609–1666), son of the Utrecht Mannerist painter Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651) (see Marten Jan Bok and Marcel Roethlisberger: Not Adriaen Bloemaert but Abraham Blommaert, in: Oud Holland, 110, 1996, pp. 12–34).
Condition:
Oil on panel, consisting of two horizontal planks, verso with five battens. Paint surface in good condition, with a fine network of craquelure in places. Slight colour abrasions along the edges.
Under UV: Retouching along the edges as well as at the horizontal join. Further small retouchings in the sky and foreground. Varnish fluoresces greenish.
Overall condition good.
Dimensions with frame: 54.7 × 72.5 cm.
Collection, Basel.
Abraham Blommaert was a Middelburg-based painter whose works have long been confused with those of Adriaen Bloemaert (c. 1609–1666), son of the Utrecht Mannerist painter Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651) (see Marten Jan Bok and Marcel Roethlisberger: Not Adriaen Bloemaert but Abraham Blommaert, in: Oud Holland, 110, 1996, pp. 12–34).
Condition:
Oil on panel, consisting of two horizontal planks, verso with five battens. Paint surface in good condition, with a fine network of craquelure in places. Slight colour abrasions along the edges.
Under UV: Retouching along the edges as well as at the horizontal join. Further small retouchings in the sky and foreground. Varnish fluoresces greenish.
Overall condition good.
Dimensions with frame: 54.7 × 72.5 cm.
CHF 4 000 / 6 000 | (€ 4 120 / 6 190)
Sold for CHF 3 750 (including buyer’s premium)
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