Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels

Leonaert Bramer Dutch

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This sheet is one of eighty brush drawings on blue paper by the prolific draftsman and painter Leonaert Bramer that belonged to an album that was disbanded and dispersed in the 1980s. The album is known as the Hofstede de Groot album as it belonged to the eminent Dutch art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot around 1930. The drawings in this album are among Bramer's earliest known drawings and some of them may have been created on his early trip to Italy (1619-1627). The drawings, diverse subjects from genre to mythology, to religious scenes, were all rendered within rectangular frames drawn on the larger sheet. Their painting-like compositions suggest that they may have been intended as ideas for paintings.

Abraham Entertaining the Three Angels, Leonaert Bramer (Dutch, Delft 1596–1674 Delft), Brush and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolor, on blue paper; framing lines in brush and gray wash and white bodycolor

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