Peasant's Cottage (recto) (c. 1600): Art, History and Details

Peasant's Cottage (recto) (c. 1600) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566–1651).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Abraham Bloemaert, active in Utrecht, was a painter, prolific draftsman, print designer, and important teacher. Bloemaert was an important precursor of the new wave of realism in Dutch art in the 1620s. Artist and author Karel van Mander (1548-1606) wrote the following description of Bloemaert=s drawings in 1604 which seems to correspond very closely to this work: With art lovers there are also by him very attractive landscapes with some attractive and funny farmhouses, farm tools, trees, and backgrounds, things to be seen around Utrecht in great numbers and variety, for he does very much from life, having a very attractive way of drawing and handling with the pen, to which he then adds some succulent touches of colors for a special seemliness.

Object facts

• Title: Peasant's Cottage (recto)
• Date: c. 1600
• Creator attribution: Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1566–1651)
• Culture: Netherlands, early 17th Century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pen and brown ink with brush and brown, blue, red and yellow wash, over black and red chalk
• Dimensions: Sheet: 17.2 x 27.2 cm (6 3/4 x 10 11/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - Dutch
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1940.737.a

Collection credit

Bequest of James Parmelee

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 08, October 1996

View the collection record

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