Lot Essay
The figure to the right of the first drawing in this lot appears in reverse in the background of the seventeenth plate of Stefano's Diversi capricci, published circa 1647 (De Vesme 144).
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Two women walking to the right, one holding a child by the hand; and A woman walking to the left carrying a bundle under her left arm
Details
Stefano della Bella (Florence 1610-1664)
Two women walking to the right, one holding a child by the hand; and A woman walking to the left carrying a bundle under her left arm
pen and brown ink
2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (54 x 54 mm.); and 2¾ x 1 in. (70 x 25 mm.) (2)
Two women walking to the right, one holding a child by the hand; and A woman walking to the left carrying a bundle under her left arm
pen and brown ink
2 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (54 x 54 mm.); and 2¾ x 1 in. (70 x 25 mm.) (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 June 1980, lot 310.