Group of Five Male Figures in Half-length
This drawing was previously considered anonymous, until an attribution to Stefano della Bella was proposed on the mount by Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani and Carmen C. Bambach. The drawing is datable to the 1640's, when della Bella was intending to draft his treatise on drawing, "I principii del disegno."
Artwork Details
- Title: Group of Five Male Figures in Half-length
- Artist: Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)
- Date: 1640–50
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk; glued onto secondary paper support
- Dimensions: 2 1/4 x 4 3/8in. (5.7 x 11.1cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
- Object Number: 80.3.68
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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