1600
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Bridge and Gate (verso) is a 1600 by Abraham Bloemaert, a Baroque work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a low wooden gate and a stone bridge over a quiet stream. The colors are soft and the light feels gentle, like early morning. Bloemaert often drew landscapes like this. He worked in Utrecht around 1600, when Dutch artists were just starting to paint everyday places. You can almost hear the water trickling under the bridge. To see more of his work, look up Abraham Bloemaert at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Abraham Bloemaert, active in Utrecht, was a painter, prolific draftsman, print designer, and important teacher. Bloemaert was an important precursor of the new wave of realism in Dutch art in the 1620s. Artist and author Karel van Mander (1548-1606) wrote the following description of Bloemaert=s drawings in 1604 which seems to correspond very closely to this work: With art lovers there are also by him very attractive landscapes with some attractive and funny farmhouses, farm tools, trees, and backgrounds, things to be seen around Utrecht in great numbers and variety, for he does very much…
Read the full account in the museum source.
Abraham Bloemaert (25 December 1566 – 27 January 1651) was a Dutch painter and printmaker who used etching and engraving.
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