La Mort sur un champ de bataille [Death on a Battlefield], 1648

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (cut to platemark): 21.1 x 29 cm (8 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Bert Freidus

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 93, State ii/iv

Accession Number

2003.88.1

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: Ste. Della Bella in. et fec. Cum Pri. Reg.; lower left in plate: Icy la Mort triomphe entre les funerailles...lowe right in plate: Semble n'avoir laissé qu'une seulement...

Provenance

(sale, Swann Galleries, New York, 1 May 2003, no. 138; via David Tunick, Inc., New York); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

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.93.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.93.

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: 126, no.305.