Abraham Bloemaert (Gorinchem 1566-1651 Utrecht) Rural genre scene with The Prodigal Son signed and dated 'A. Bloemaert/ 1634' (centre right) oil on panel 47.5 x 64.3cm (18 11/16 x 25 5/16in). Footnotes: Provenance With Herbert Terry-Engel, London, before 1939 European Aristocratic Collection and thence by descent until 2010 Literature M. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his Sons, p. 310, cat. no. 481, pl. 663, ill The Bloemaert Effect: Colour and composition in the Golden Age, Petersberg, 2011, exh. cat., pp.180-181 Exhibited Utrecht, Centraal Museum, The Bloemaert Effect: Colour and composition in the Golden Age, 11 November 2011- 5 February 2012, cat. no. 73 Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, The Bloemaert Effect: Colour and composition in the Golden Age, 24 February - 28 May 2012, cat. no. 73 The sleeping peasant appears in Bloemaert's Landscape with Peasants Resting, Tobias and the Angel, now in the Staatliche Museen, Berlin. This figure also appears in a print by Cornelis Bloemaert, Abraham's son (see: British Museum, inv. no. D,7.208). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com