Portrait Bust of Man Wearing Cravat (recto); Sketch of Saddle (verso)
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto), and red and brown ink (verso), on ivory laid paper, cut to oval, tipped onto ivory laid paper
Dimensions
7.6 × 5.8 cm (3 × 2 5/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112453
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...