Leonaert Bramer

Twelve Scenes from the Life of Christ

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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT

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5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Property from the Collection of David and Loꦿuise Carter

Leonaert Bramer

Delft 1596 - 1674

Twelve Scenes from the Life of Christ

All watercolor and gouache on vellum

Each: circa 128 by 100 mm; 5 by 4 in

Possibly René della Faille de Waerloos;
his sale Amsterdam, Frederik Muller & Co., 19 January 1904, part of lot 59

M. Plomp, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674: Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exhib. cat., Delft, Museum het Prinsenhof, 1994, p. 313, no. 9

Princeton, The Princeton Art Museum, Works on Paper, 1981, catalogue untraced;
Milwaukee, Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674: A Painter of the Night, 1992, nos. 35-49

Bramer was one of the most prolific draughtsmen of his time and occupies a unique position in Dutch seventeenth-century art. He is perhaps best known for producing drawings in illustrative sets a𓂃nd series, treating a wide variety of themes from the Bible, classical mythology, classical history and popular literature.

The present series depict scenes from the The Life of Christ, a subject which Bramer illustrated repeatedly; including the present grouping, no fewer than thirteen series of drawings on this theme are known.¹ Bramer's colored drawings of this type are usually thought to be later works; Plomp (loc. cit.) dates the present series, which in 1904 contained 14 sheets, circa 1660-70.

1. Plomp, op. cit., p. 183