Female Dancer in a Costume for a Theatre Performance
c. 1658
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, and graphite, with touches of brush and red wash, on buff laid paper, tipped onto gray wove card
Dimensions
23.9 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
pen and ink drawings
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
50255
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella · 1610–1664
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was one of the most prolific and versatile printmakers of the Italian Baroque period, leaving behind 1,052 prints and several thousand drawings that captured the vivid essence of 17th-century European life. Born in Florence on May 18, 1610, to a family of artists, he trained initially as a goldsmith before studying painting under Cesare Dandini and etching under Rem...