water-colour, pen black ink, on the verso, study of a basket, a landscape and a plough, ink and red chalk, a few stains étude Lelièvre, Chartres, France. This drawing was only estimated at US $ 20,000. Bloemaert, who had a few pupils, among them Weenix, was a talented draughtsman who embraced all kinds of subjects. Bloemaert, who was naturalist artist, influenced many artists of the 17th Century as well as those of the School of Barbizon during the second half of the 19th Century. |