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Female Dancer in a Costume for a Theatre Performance
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper center, on mount, in blue pencil: "Stefano della Bella"
Provenance
J. Kyrle Fletcher, London, by June 1937 [The Connoisseur 1937]. Given by Mr. Alfred E. Hamill, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1944.
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.
Publications
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.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Stefano della Bella / Italian, 1610-1664
- Date
- c. 1658
- Medium
- 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
- Dimensions
- 23.9 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- pen and ink drawings
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred E. Hamill
- Accession no.
- 1944.197
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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