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Currently not on display

Stefano della Bella

Firenze, 1610 - Firenze, 1664

<I Principi del Disegno>: (2) Nine studies of eyes, nose and mouths

Date 1641
Materials and Techniques Etching
Watermarks crowned escutcheon with a horn (cfr. E. Heawood, Watermarks, I, no. 2650, "Roma 1649")
Size(cm) 12.7 x 15.7 (plate); 19.0 x 29.1 (paper)
State 2nd state
Inscriptions Signed: S. D. Bella in et fecit Auec priuilege du Roy; Numbered lower right: 2
Standard ref. De Vesme 365
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2006-0022

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2007.

Bibliography

1971
De Vesme, Alexandre; Massar, Phyllis Dearborn. Stefano Della Bella: Catalogue raisonné. 2 vols., New York, Collectors Editions, 1971, cat. 364-388.
2008
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 41 (Apr. 2006-Mar. 2007), 2008, List of New Acquisitions. p. 47.

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