Fantastic Vases

probably 1646

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image shows a drawing of several ornamental vases and containers filled with detailed flowers and foliage, surrounded by human-like figures and a large bird. The color palette is monochrome, using black linework on a beige background. On the left is a large vase with floral arrangements, two figures holding another vase, a wide low basin with figures and plants, curvaceous vessels holding plants, and a large vase with a bird-like shape and floral embellishments, with smaller containers beside it.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1944.2.81

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 1046, State i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1956

  • Renaissance to Roccoco: A Loan Exhibition of Italian Engravings and Woodcuts, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1956, no cat.

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.1046.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.1046.

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: 110, no.257.

Wikidata ID

Q65025654

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