Huntsman with a Hound on a Leash

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The drawing shows a figure with a dog. The figure is wearing dynamic clothing and holding a stick or staff while one hand reaches towards the dog. The dog is leaping or running next to the figure, both appearing in motion. The sketch highlights the anatomy and posture of the figure and the dog with detailed line work. The background is plain to focus attention on the interaction and motion between the subjects.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper, mounted on old album sheet

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.7 x 18.2 cm (5 3/8 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.140.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

John Barnard, London (d. 1784) (Lugt 1490). Lord Francis Granville Leveson Gower (not in Lugt; see Lugt 2710b). (Colnaghi, New York, 1987); Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, New York; gift to NGA, 2004.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Old Master Drawings, Conaghi Drawings, New York, 1987, no. 24.

Inscriptions

by later hand, verso in brown ink: from the Leveson Gower Collection; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: Della Bella; by later hand, verso in brown ink: from the Leveson Gower Collection

Wikidata ID

Q64632732

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