Diversi Animali (Various Animals)
1641
Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664
Stefano Della Bella
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with 24 etchings on laid paper mounted on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
page size: 10.7 × 17 cm (4 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
book: 11.2 × 18 × 1 cm (4 7/16 × 7 1/16 × 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
2013.104.1.1-24
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Catalogue Raisonné
De Vesme/Massar 1971, nos. 690-713
Associated Artworks
See all 24 artworksDiversi Animali Title Plate: Pack Horse (Titre. Un Mulet)
Stefano Della Bella
1641
Eagle and Eaglet (Un aigle et un aiglon)
Stefano Della Bella
1641
Seated Monkey (Un singe assis)
Stefano Della Bella
1641
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, 1906, nos. 690-713.
1971
De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971, nos. 690-713.
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: 51-60, nos.1-28.
Inscriptions
by later hands on front pastedown at upper right in black ink: 90-79-13; upper center in graphite: Stefano della Bella / De Vesme 690-713/II; center right: Massar dates set: 1641 / superb impressions/compared with Spencer set at Fogg / MFA has third state; lower cover upper right in graphite: 2800/384; lower right: H QSS 1218[4?]