<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">In the newly Protestant Northern Netherlands, depictions of the Virgin and Child were painted less and less, but the thema was still very popular in the partly Catholic city of Utrecht. Hendrick’s father and master in painting, Abraham Bloemaert, painted several versions of Maria. His way of composing must have influences Hendrick’s work. This painting has a highly realistic expression. The intimite character of the scene is reminiscent of a mortal mother with her newborn: something Hendrick, who became a father himself shortly after 1631, must have seen daily.</span></p>
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In the newly Protestant Northern Netherlands, depictions of the Virgin and Child were painted less and less, but the thema was still very popular in the partly Catholic city of Utrecht. Hendrick’s father and master in painting, Abraham Bloemaert, painted several versions of Maria. His way of composing must have influences Hendrick’s work. This painting has a highly realistic expression. The intimite character of the scene is reminiscent of a mortal mother with her newborn: something Hendrick, who became a father himself shortly after 1631, must have seen daily.
Bij Glerum, Den Haag 10-11-1997, cat. nr. 821, p. 13, met afb., werd een kopie aangeboden op paneel, 65,5 x 54,5 cm, gesigneerd Richard van Orley ii (Brussel 1663-Brussel 1732).
Documentation
Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Marten Jan Bok, (Doornspijk, 1993), dl. I, cat. nr. H70; dl. II, afb. H72
Calvinisme en kunst, H.C. de Wolf, (Antiek : tijdschrift voor liefhebbers en kenners van oude kunst en kunstnijverheid, 3; II), pp. 142-143, met afb.
Hendrik Bloemaert : Moeder en kind, (Die mei plezant, tijdschrift voor groepsdans, volkszang, huismuziek en spel, 1; 21, 1964-05), afb. p. 6 met beschr.; cat. nr. 41
Exhibitions
Double Act : Meesterwerken in verf en video, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2022 - 2023
De gezonde stad , Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2022
Impakt: Modern Love (or Love in the Age of Cold Intimacies), Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2021 - 2022
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