Apollo and Daphne, after Bernini

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Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)
Apollo and Daphne, after Bernini
black lead, pen and brown ink, watermark praying man in a shield
13¼ x 9 in. (337 x 230 mm.)

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Lot Essay

This and the following lot are after Bernini's famous sculpture executed in 1622-5 for Cardinal Scipione Borghese in Rome, and still at the Villa Borghese. The present lot and the following three were drawn during Stefano's second trip to Rome, in 1651-4. A drawing after the Medici Venus, a famous sculpture then exhibited at the Villa Medici in Rome, is in the Louvre (F. Viatte, Dessins de Stefano della Bella, Paris, 1974, no. 300).

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