Hendrick Bloemaert 1601/02 – Utrecht – 1672

Democritus

Provenance

Paris, collection Jules Porgès, c. 1880-1914 (Jan van Bijlert)
Paris, Galerie Charles Brunner, by 1919 (Hendrick ter Brugghen)
United Kingdom, private collection
Sale London, Sotheby’s, 6 December 1989, lot 241 (Jan van Bijlert)
New York, Piero Corsini Inc., 1990 (Hendrick Bloemaert)
Turin, Galleria Caretto, 1992 (Hendrick Bloemaert)
Milan, collection Luigi Koelliker, 2006 (Hendrick Bloemaert)
Sale London, Sotheby’s, 3 December 2008, lot 27 (Hendrick Bloemaert)1
United States, private collection (Hendrick Bloemaert)

Literature

B. Nicolson, Hendrick Terbrugghen, London 1958, p. 46, under nos. A3 and A4 (Anonymous)
G.J. Hoogewerff, ‘Jan van Bijlert, schilder van Utrecht (1598-1671)’, in: Oud Holland 80 (1965), pp. 3-33, p. 27, cat. no. 44 (Jan van Bijlert)
A. Blankert, ‘Heraclitus en Democritus : in het bijzonder in de Nederlandse kunst van de 17de eeuw’, in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 18 (1967), pp. 31-124, p. 62, fig. 18, p. 97, no. 30 (attributed to Jan van Bijlert)
B. Nicolson, L. Vertova, Caravaggism in Europe, 3 vols., Turin 1989, 1, p. 156, 3, pl. 1355 (Petrus Portengen)
F. Dabell, Important old master paintings : within the image, exh. cat. New York, Piero Corsini Inc. 1990, p. 70, pl. 14 (Hendrick Bloemaert)
L. Caretto, Mostra maestri fiamminghi ed olandesi del XVI-XVII secolo, 3 vols., exh. cat. Turin, Galleria Caretto 1992, 3 (‘Collezionismo maggiore’), no. 4 (Hendrick Bloemaert)
M. Roethlisberger, M.J. Bok, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, 2 vols., Doornspijk 1993, 1, p. 443, under cat. no. H3 (‘attribution [to Hendrick Bloemaert] is unconvincing’)2
P. Huys Janssen, Jan van Bijlert : Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam/Philadelphia 1998, p. 196, cat. no. R. 10
C. Wright, in: W. Franits et al., French, Dutch and Flemish caravaggesque paintings from the Koelliker collection, part II, exh. cat. London, Robilant and Voena 2007, pp. 18, 19, ill. (Hendrick Bloemaert)

Exhibited

London, Robilant and Voena, French, Dutch and Flemish Caravaggesque Paintings from the Koelliker Collection, 2007, no. 4 (Hendrick Bloemaert)