The Deluge Artist: Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564–1651)

ca. 1590–95

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 57 5/8 × 77 1/4 in. (146.4 × 196.2 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund

Accession Number

1964.40

Culture

Dutch

Period

17th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Arcade Gallery, London, England; sold to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1964
Bibliography
  • Ger Luijten, ed., Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art, 1580–1620, exh. cat. (Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1993), 21-22, 108, 379–80, no. 36a
  • Marcel Georges Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints (Doornspijk, the Netherlands: Davaco, 1993), no. 16, ill
  • Anne W. Lowenthal, Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism (Doornspijk, the Netherlands: Davaco, 1986), 78–79, 172–73, no. C-92
  • Alfred Bader, The Bible through Dutch Eyes: From Genesis through the Apocrypha (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Center, 1976), 11, 14–15, no. 2
  • Katherine Neilson and Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, Selected Paintings and Sculpture from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972), no. 18
  • Bernard Berenson, Seeing and Knowing (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1968), 36, fig. 11
  • "Recent Gifts and Purchases," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 30, no. 2 (1965), 14–15
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

human figures (visual works), nudes (representations)

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