About This Artwork
Stefano della Bella
Italian, 1610-1664
Female Dancer in an Exotic Costumec. 1658
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
239 x 165 mm
Inscribed verso, upper center, on mount, in blue pencil: "Stefano della Bella"
Gift of Alfred E. Hamill, 1944.197
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, "A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections," March 5-April 3, 1970, cat. 52.
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, "A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections," January 16-February 15, 1970.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "151 Italian Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 76, cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Publication History
Connoisseur, XCIX (June 1937), p. 430 (ill).
Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 3E11.
Ownership History
J. Kyrle Fletcher, London, by June 1937 [The Connoisseur 1937]. Given by Mr. Alfred E. Hamill, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1944.