Bishop seated in his Study, seen from his Right Side
Abraham Bloemaert
c. 1645
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash over graphite with opaque white watercolor on cream laid paper
Dimensions
23.6 × 18.6 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123456
About the Artist
Abraham Bloemaert · 1566–1651
Abraham Bloemaert (1566–1651) was born in Gorinchem in the Dutch Republic, the son of architect Cornelis Bloemaert, and grew up in Utrecht after the family relocated there in 1575. His early artistic formation took him to Paris for three years in the early 1580s, where he studied with several masters before returning to the Northern Netherlands to pursue his career. He settled permanently in Utrec...