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Description: Graphite, red chalk, pen and brown ink, reddish wash, heightened with white, 75 x 70 mm. Ruled framing lines in brown ink. Traced for transfer. Laid down. Numbered on the old mount, in pen and brown ink, 21, and inscribed, in pen and black ink, Blomaert. / No. 184. On the verso, in graphite, F.

This drawing was copied in one of the drawings in the Cambridge Album,  which in turn was engraved in the Tekenboek, plate 143.  Roethlisberger assumes that the present drawing was a copy after the one in Cambridge, but according to Bolten it is the other way around. This is a very neat drawing, easily confused with a good copy, but it was traced for transfer, and was obviously made to be included in the Tekenboek. Bolten dates it to 1620–30.

In the present drawing, Joseph is turning towards Mary, who is uncovering the infant. In the Cambridge drawing, that version is combined with another one, of the same size, in which Mary raises her hands in adoration. There is no drawing for this second version, and neither of them is known from other works by Bloemaert. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 48]

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