id:			157217
accession number:	1994.10
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.10
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Charity, c. 1590. Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564–1651). Oil on wood; framed: 87 x 100 x 10.2 cm (34 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 4 in.); unframed: 68.6 x 54.5 cm (27 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1994.10

title:				Charity
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creation date:			c. 1590
creation date earliest:		1585
creation date latest:		1595
current location:		213 Dutch Painting
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
copyright:			

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culture:	Netherlands, late 16th Century
technique:	oil on wood
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Abraham Bloemaert (Dutch, 1564–1651)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 87 x 100 x 10.2 cm (34 1/4 x 39 3/8 x 4 in.); Unframed: 68.6 x 54.5 cm (27 x 21 7/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time
	opening date:   2001-01-28T00:00:00
	<i>Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time</i>. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg, FL (organizer) (January 28-April 8, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Private collection, Caracas, Venezuela
	date: Probably until 1992
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			* <div><!--block-->Sotheby's informed Jack Kilgore upon his purchase of the painting in 1993 that it was formerly owned by a private collector in Caracas.</div>
			
			
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	(Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 17, 1992, no. 18 [as "attributed to Abraham Bloemaert"]; unsold)
	date: 1992
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	American private collection?
	date: 1992-1993?
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			* <div><!--block-->According to Marcel Roethlisberger’s <em>Abraham Bloemaert and Sons </em>(1993), the painting was in an American private collection (attributed to Spranger) after it failed to sell at Sotheby’s in 1992. However, presumably, the painting remained with the consignor to that sale afterwards; that is, the Caracas private collector.&nbsp; Thus, the reference to the American private collection is questionable.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>
			
			
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	(Sotheby’s, New York, private treaty sale, June 16, 1993, sold to Jack Kilgore)
	date: 1993
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	(Jack Kilgore & Co., Inc., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1993-1994
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1994-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore &amp; Co., painting information sheet, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.&nbsp;</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Important Old Master Paintings</em>. Jan. 17, 1992.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.&nbsp;</div><div><!--block--><br></div>
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	<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore &amp; Co., painting information sheet, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	<div><!--block-->Jack Kilgore, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 22, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.</div>
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	Roethlisberger, Marcel, and Marten Jan Bok. <em>Abraham Bloemaert and His Sons: Paintings and Prints</em>. 2 vols. Doornspijk: Davaco, 1993.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 86, no. 37; reproduced: fig. 72
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions to the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection,” August 26, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr3900

	Roethlisberger, Marcel. "Early Abraham Bloemaert." <em>Tableau </em>(Dec. 1994): 44 ff.<em><br></em>
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 44; reproduced: fig. 6
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	Roethlisberger, Marcel, Sally Metzler, and Jennifer Hardin. <em>Abraham Bloemaert (1566-1651) and His Time.</em> Exh. cat. St. Petersburg, Fla: Museum of Fine Arts, 2001.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 2, p. 37; Reproduced: cover
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