Elephant (Un éléphant)

1641

Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper mounted on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as the Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.5 × 10.7 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 9.2 × 11.5 cm (3 5/8 × 4 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.104.1.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 699, State ii/iii

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Wild Boar (Un sanglier courant...)

Stefano Della Bella

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Maggs Bros., 1990); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (Christie's, New York, Sale Thursday June 20, 2013, Lot 384); Vincent and Linda Buonanno, Chicago; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906: no.699.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.699.

1996

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. Milano, 1996: no.699.

2001

  • Talbierska, Jolanta.AKWAFORTY ZE ZBIOROW GABINETU RYCIN BIBLIOTEKI UNIWERSYTECKIEJ W WARSZAWIE / Etchings from the Collection of the Print Room of the Warsaw University Library. Warsaw, 2001:54, no.10.

Inscriptions

In plate, bottom left: 10; in plate, bottom right: Stef. della B. fecit; by unknown hand, upper right, in ink: 7

Wikidata ID

Q77005913

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