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| ABRAHAM BLOEMAERT ( 1564 - 1651)
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| Three Villagers (recto); View of a Village (verso)
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Black chalk heightened with white (recto), black chalk and watercolour (verso)
152 x 190 mm
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper left corner, 5.3
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Private collection, France
This study of peasant farmers was almost certainly made in about 1620, for two of them relate directly to works dating from this period. Bloemaert used the figure on the left of the drawing for the figure on the far right in his painting Preaching of Saint John in the Staatsgalerie, Aschaffenburg, of about 1620. The figure on the right appears, in reverse, on the right in Bloemaerts print The Cockfight, one of four prints depicting genre scenes. According to Marcel Roethlisberger, these prints, which are known as Four Genre Scenes, were designed in the 1620s. The study in the centre, of a cloaked man holding a basket, does not seem to occur in any painting or print by Bloemaert. Certainly taken from life, these studies probably belonged to a sketchbook, which Bloemaert would turn to when looking for suitable figures for his compositions.
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