The Circumcision

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The Circumcision

Abraham BloemaertLinkedCulture matchlcp-f604921c8106

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
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
215326

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In this dynamic drawing, Utrecht-based Abraham Bloemaert created a thoughtful compositional study for this scene from the early life of Christ. Bloemaert described the Virgin and the attendant figures in the foreground with expressive gestures—fingers spread and arms outstretched into space as if in an attempt to stop the circumcision taking place before them. A mass of faintly sketched figures in the background suggests how Bloemaert might have realized the composition in his next phase of execution.

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Credit line
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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.

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AAT300033973

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