Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006119The Circumcision
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower left, in brown ink: "A Bloem: fe: 1601" [date may be added at a later time according to Bolten]
Provenance
Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf (1884–1974), London [stamp (Lugt 2811b) twice, on verso of secondary support and recto lower right of mount, in black]. Paul Drey, London, 1971. Sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 23, 2008, lot 137, to Bob P. Haboldt & Co., New York and Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd.; sold by Jean-Luc Baroni, London, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, Mass., July 6, 2012; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, Mar. 15–June 15, 2014, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Rubens, Rembrandt, and Drawing in the Golden Age", September 28, 2019 - January 5, 2020, pp. 156-58, 160 (ill.), 280, 289, cat. 54, cat. by Victoria Sancho Lobis, et. al.
Publications
Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, Paintings and Prints (Davaco: Ghent, 1993), 2 vols. 1:94, under no. 48, vol. I, p. 94 and cat. No. D7, p. 422, reproduced vol. II, fig.108. J. Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings, 2 vols. (Leiden: J. Bolten, 2007), vol I: p. 56, no.112, vol II: p. 63 (ill.). Bob Haboldt, ed., Singular Vision: Haboldt & Co.’s Old Master Paintings and Drawings Since 1983 (Amsterdam, New York, Paris: Haboldt & Co., 2012), p. 66 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Abraham Bloemaert / Dutch, 1566-1651
- Date
- 1601
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on buff laid card
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 27.7 × 27.6 cm (10 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.); Secondary support: 28.2 × 28.2 cm (11 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.897
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