Interior with Draftsman, Title of Part Four, from "The Drawing Book" (Het Tekenboek) of Abraham Bloemaert
Frederick Bloemaert, Dutch, 1616 - 1690
after Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch, 1566 - 1651
about 1650-1656
Etching and engraving on laid paper
Plate: 8 3/16 × 6 1/2 in. (20.8 × 16.5 cm)
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (38.7 × 27.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.965.85
Publisher
Reinier and Josua Ottens, Amsterdam, 1740
Geography
Place Made: Netherlands, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
On view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: Abraham Bloemaert inventor.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: Fred. Bloemaert Sculpsit.; inscribed, in plate, lower center: [in banner] QUATRIEME PARTIE, / Contenant / Des Figures d'Academie d'Hommes et de Femmes. / N. Visscher excudit. Cum Privilegio Ordinum Hollandiae [ae in ligature] et Westfrisiae [ae in ligature]; inscribe, in plate, lower right, below image: No. [o in superscript] 96; Watermark, upper center: IV; Watermark lower center: P[indistinct] PATRIA [lion rampant with a sword and arrows; garden of Holland; seated maid of Dort (Dordecht) with hat on a spear]
Label
A well-dressed young man sits at a table, his eyes fixed on a jumble of sculpture in front of him: two torsos with neither head nor arms, a wide-eyed portrait bust, and a disembodied foot. The Dutch painter and printmaker Abraham Bloemaert created his Tekenboek (drawing book) as an instructional tool for artists. The book included details of different parts of the body as well as clothed and nude figures in a variety of positions, providing models for students who may not have been able to study from either live models or sculpture.
From the 2024 exhibition Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, curated by Elizabeth Rice Mattison, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art, and Ashley B. Offill, Curator of Collections
Course History
History 42.01, Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies 22.01, Gender & European Society, Patrick Meehan, Spring 2024
History 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Spring 2024
Italian 1.01, Introductory Italian I, Noemi Perego, Spring 2024
Italian 11.01, Intensive Italian, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 2.01, Introductory Italian II, Floriana Ciniglia, Spring 2024
Italian 3.01, Introductory Italian III, Tania Convertini, Spring 2024
Italian 3.02, Introductory Italian III, Giorgio Alberti, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
17th and 18th Century Prints, Art 46 Northern Baroque, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-April 23, 1978.
Living with Sculpture: Presence and Power in Europe, 1400–1750, Citrin Family Gallery and Engles Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 23, 2024–March 22, 2025.
Provenance
R.E. Lewis, Inc., San Rafael, California; sold to present collection, 1965.
Catalogue Raisonne
M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons, 1993, pp. 405-406, no. T96.
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