A Quartet of Singers, Lute players, and Bell Ringers Playing in a Tavern by Candlelight mid to late 17th century Leonaert Bramer This sheet is one of eighty brush drawings on blue paper by the prolific draftsman and painter Leonaert Bramer that belonged to an album that was disbanded and dispersed in the 1980s. The album is known as the Hofstede de Groot album as it belonged to the eminent Dutch art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot around 1930. The drawings in this album are among Bramer's earliest known drawings and some of them may have been created on his early trip to Italy (1619-1627)

A Quartet of Singers, Lute players, and Bell Ringers Playing in a Tavern by Candlelight mid to late 17th century Leonaert Bramer This sheet is one of eighty brush drawings on blue paper by the prolific draftsman and painter Leonaert Bramer that belonged to an album that was disbanded and dispersed in the 1980s. The album is known as the Hofstede de Groot album as it belonged to the eminent Dutch art historian Cornelis Hofstede de Groot around 1930. The drawings in this album are among Bramer's earliest known drawings and some of them may have been created on his early trip to Italy (1619-1627). The drawings, diverse subjects from genre to mythology, to religious scenes, were all rendered within rectangular frames drawn on the larger sheet. Their painting-like compositions suggest that they may have been intended as ideas for A Quartet of Singers, Lute players, and Bell Ringers Playing in a Tavern by Candlelight. Leonaert Bramer (Dutch, Delft 1596–1674 Delft). mid to late 17th century. Brush drawing in gray ink, heightened with white bodycolor. Framing line in brush and gray ink with white bodycolor. Drawings

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