Old Master Drawings
Old Master Drawings
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Stefano della Bella
Recto: Study of an Elephant Verso: The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths
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January 27, 05:29 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Collection of David and Louise Carter
Stefano della Bella
Florence 1610 - 1664
Recto: Study of an Elephant
Verso: The Battle of the Centaurs and Lapiths
Pen and brown ink and gray wash over traces of black chalk (recto); pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk (verso);
bears old attribution in black chalk, lower right: della Bella
142 by 217 mm; 5 ⅜ by 8 ⅜ in
Thomas Tomkins,
his sale, London, Mr. Hickman's Gallery, 25-28 February 1818, part of lot 289 ('The Works of Stefano della Bella'), for £32.10/-, to Holroyd(?);
Robert Holford,
thence by descent to his son, Sir George Holford,
by whose Executors sold, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1928, part of lot 29B, for £145, to Castaguari;
sale, London, Christie's, A Collection of Drawings by Stefano della Bella, 18 March 1975, lot 18;
with Herbert N. Bier, London,
where acquired 1978
his sale, London, Mr. Hickman's Gallery, 25-28 February 1818, part of lot 289 ('The Works of Stefano della Bella'), for £32.10/-, to Holroyd(?);
Robert Holford,
thence by descent to his son, Sir George Holford,
by whose Executors sold, London, Sotheby's, 22 May 1928, part of lot 29B, for £145, to Castaguari;
sale, London, Christie's, A Collection of Drawings by Stefano della Bella, 18 March 1975, lot 18;
with Herbert N. Bier, London,
where acquired 1978
Princeton, The Princeton Art Museum, Works on Paper, 1981, catalogue untraced