Sultaness Adorned with Pearls, Turned to the Left

1649/1650

Stefano Della Bella

Associated Names
Stefano Della Bella

Artist, Florentine, 1610 - 1664

The image shows a portrait of a person from the shoulders up, facing slightly to the left. They have curly hair, a turban-like headpiece, and are wearing a simple garment with a necklace. The background is a textured oval frame with no specific details or scenery.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate (oval): 10 x 7.4 cm (3 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 10.7 x 8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1994.72.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 186, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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. 186, ii/ii.

1971

  • De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no. 186, 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. 48.

Inscriptions

center right in plate: S. d. Bella; by later hand, lower center in graphite within plate mark: 43; by later hand, lower right in graphite: 172; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 2

Wikidata ID

Q75125403

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