Studies of a female figure in classical dress and studies of limbs (recto); A landscape with a seated figure (verso)

The studies on this double-sided drawing can be connected to Stefano della Bella’s print of a Nymph holding a large dog by the collar, known also as the Beautiful huntress (fig. 1; A. De Vesme, P. D. Massar, Stefano della Bella. Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1971, no. 208). The figure probably derives from an antique sculpture of Diana now in the Louvre (P. D. Massar, Presenting Stefano Della Bella Seventeenth-century Printmaker, New York, 1971, p. 56).

Fig. 1. Stefano Della Bella, Nymph holding a large dog by the collar. Etching. The Art Institute of Chicago.