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Stefano Della Bella

Mythological Playing Cards, 1644

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series Title

Jeu des Mythologie (Fables) [Vesme 489-541]

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.8 × 22.6 cm (10 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

sheet: 27.7 × 23.2 cm (10 7/8 × 9 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 496, State -498, 509-11, 514-15, 522-23, 532*

Accession Number

1968.24.105

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Inscription

recto: in brown ink, on paper pasted at bottom: Metamorphose de la Belle. au nombre de / 53 pieces de premier Epreuve tres Rare.

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, nos. 496, -498, 509-11, 514-15, 522-23, 532*.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: nos. 496, -498, 509-11, 514-15, 522-23, 532*.

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: undescribed.

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