The Slothful Villagers: A Peasant with Poultry and other Wares, resting on the Way to the Village Market

18th century

Medium: Black chalk heightened with white on gray paper
Dimensions: sheet: 6 1/4 × 10 1/4 in. (15.9 × 26.1 cm)
Credit Line: Egmont Collection, Yale Library Transfer
Accession Number: 1961.61.59
Geography: Made in The Netherlands
Culture: Dutch
Period: 18th century
Classification: Drawings
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Provenance

John Percival, first Earl of Egmont (1683-1748);
John T. Graves; Robert Hoe (sale New York, Ander-
son Auction Company, April 15-19, 1912, Library
of Robert Hoe, Part III, A-K, no. 949); Yale
University Library (anonymous donor, 1957)

Bibliography

Jaap Bolten, Abraham Bloemaert, c. 1565–1651: The Drawings (Leiden: Jaap Bolten, 2007), p. 248 (vol. 1), p. 306 (vol. 2), no. 718a, ill.

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

genre (visual works)

Subject

baskets birds (animals) portraits

Inscriptions

In graphite at LC: "Bloemart"; in pen and brown ink at LC: "Bloemart"

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