Camel Viewed from Behind near a Pyramid (Un chameau vu par la croupe...), 1641

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series Title

Diversi Animali (Various Animals) [plate 18]

Medium

etching on laid paper mounted on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 8.6 × 10.7 cm (3 3/8 × 4 3/16 in.)

sheet: 9.4 × 11.6 cm (3 11/16 × 4 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Vincent and Linda Buonanno

Catalogue Raisonné

De Vesme/Massar 1971, no. 707, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2013.104.1.18

Artists / Makers

Stefano Della Bella (artist) Florentine, 1610 - 1664

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Inscription

In plate, across bottom: 18 S. della Bella fecit Cum privil Mariette excu.; by unknown hand, upper right, in ink: 85

Provenance

(Maggs Bros., 1990); Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (Christie's, New York, Sale Thursday June 20, 2013, Lot 384); Vincent and Linda Buonanno, Chicago; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.
Vershbow, Arthur E., Mr.

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.707.

1971: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. New York, 1971: no.707.

1996: De Vesme, Alexandre, Phyllis Dearborn Massar.Stefano Della Bella. Milano, 1996: no.707.

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: 56, no.18.