King Saul
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 8 5/8 x 7 1/16 in. (21.9 x 17.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.86
Tags
About the Artist
Abraham Bloemaert|Willem van Swanenburg|Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini|Anonymous, Dutch, 17th century · 1566–1651
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...