The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1655

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.8 x 27.8 cm (16 1/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2007.111.60

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

Lower right, brown ink: Steffanino della Bella; on verso of mount at lower center in brown ink: Stefano Della Bella/born at Florence in 1610 Died at Ditto in 1662/aged 54; above that in graphite: No. 10 + 1; and at lower right: 288.

Provenance

Sir Bruce Ingram, Chesham (1877 - 1963) (Lugt 1405a). Carl Winter. Mrs. Don Forrest. (sale, Sotheby's London, 5 December 1977, no. 10). (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); Wolfgang Ratjen, Munich; purchased 2007 by NGA.

Associated Names

Forrest, Don, Mrs.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
Sotheby's, London
Stiftung Ratjen
Winter, Charles

Exhibition History

1959: Exhibition of 17th Century Italian Drawings. Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, 1959, no. 3 (not reproduced).

1972: Italian 17th Century Drawings from British Private Collections, The Merchant's Hall, Edinburgh, 1972, no. 107.

1991: Italian Drawings. Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London and New York, 1991-1992, no. 16.

1995: Fünfzig italienische Zeichnungen des 16. - 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Stiftung Ratjen, Vaduz, Liechtensteinischen Staatlichen Kunstsammlung, Vaduz, 1995, no. 23.

1996: Italian Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation, Vaduz. The Frick Collection, New York. Bern, 1996, no. 23.

2011: Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525-1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2011, no. 31.

Bibliography

1972: Holloway, James. Review of "Italian Seventeenth-Century Drawings from British Private Collections." The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 835 (October 1972): 730, fig. 110.