Christ and the Canaanite Women

Abraham Bloemaert

late 16th–mid-17th century

Christ and the Canaanite Women by Abraham Bloemaert

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightening with white, over black chalk, on beige paper; traces of framing line in pen and brown ink

Dimensions

13 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (34.3 x 47.9 cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1962

Accession Number

62.44

Tags

WomenMenChrist

About the Artist

Abraham Bloemaert · 15661651

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...

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