Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert.

Engraving, 31,4 x 22,7 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate at the lower edge "P. Morelsen pinxit ad vivum I. Matham sculp." (upper left and right corners cut, trimmed to or just outside the platemark).

Tipped by upper corners to backing paper.

Portrait of Abraham Bloemaert, aged forty-three, turned to the left, wearing a ruff and damascened jerkin, in an oval cartouche surmounted with the figures of Painting (or Designo) and a winged trumpeting Genius (or Fama). A preparatory modello in oil on paper is in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels, inv.no. 4060. First state (of 2).
Ref. New Hollstein (Matham) 231.1.
Joined: 32 portrait engravings of Netherlandish and Italian artists, i.a. portraits of Gillis Van Coninckxloo, Lucas Gassel and Joos Van Cleve, by Hendrik Hondius, the engraved portrait of Rubens by Paulus Pontius, and the portrait of Aegidius Sadeler by Pieter De Jode. Some book illustrations.(33 pcs)