About this artwork
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artist:Abraham Bloemaert (1564 - 1651) Netherlandish
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title:Landscape with Sleeping Wanderer and a Peasant with Sheep
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Black chalk and brown wash on paper
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measurements:16.70 x 22.40 cm
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object type:
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credit line:David Laing Bequest to the Royal Scottish Academy transferred 1910
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accession number:D 1320
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Abraham Bloemaert
Abraham Bloemaert
For more than fifty years, Bloemaert was the most eminent painter in the city of Utrecht. He was born in Gorinchem, a town some 25 miles east of Rotterdam. His father was a sculptor, increasingly working as an architect and engineer. By 1576, the family had settled in Utrecht, where Bloemaert spent...