Stefano della BELLA (1610-1664)
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) - Satyr and child a playing with a goat / Description: Fascinating and large work for the artist. Two children playing with a goat; in centre a goat seated on the ground under a tree with an infant satyr seated on its back, both facing left, with a naked child to left gesturing and a satyr family to right with another child seated on a goat; in oval composition. / Dimensions: 22,20 x 24,30 cm Very good impression cropped to the subject, trimmed on image borderline. Watermarked laid paper. Athe the backside a strip of paper against the left border. / Literature: Alvin 1866 1122----Hollstein 565 (Wierix) - only state----Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1979 566---- Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (XXI.26.30) --- Bellini 1982 / L'Opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (7.II) Etching
