Title Page for "Plusieurs Testes Coiffées a la Persienne", 1650

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series Title

Heads in the Persian Style (Oriental Heads) [De Vesme 181-192]

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate (oval): 10 x 7.4 cm (3 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.)

sheet: 10.6 x 8.2 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 181, State ii/ii

Accession Number

1994.72.1

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center in plate: Israel / Cu Pri.o Regis; lower left in plate: Plusieurs / Testes Coiffées a la / Persienne. faitte / Per. Ste. D. Bella; lower center in plate: 1650; by later hand, lower right in graphite within plate mark: 40; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 172; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 6

Provenance

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

Associated Names

McCarron, Paul

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. 181, ii/ii.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 181, ii/ii.

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: no. III. 43.