Groom with a Camel

1649

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image features a young person seen from the waist up, facing slightly away from the viewer with their head turned to the right. The individual has curly hair and is wearing a garment with a wide neckline that drapes around their shoulders. Next to them on the right is the head of a camel with a halter around its snout. The background is plain and the composition is enclosed within an oval shape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate (oval): 9.9 x 7.3 cm (3 7/8 x 2 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 10.7 x 8.1 cm (4 3/16 x 3 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.72.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 191, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul McCarron, New York); purchased 1994 by NGA.

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.191.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.191.

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: 145, no.53.

Inscriptions

center left in plate: SDBella / 1649; by later hand, lower center in graphite within plate mark: 51; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 172; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 10

Wikidata ID

Q75125426

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