Description
This print shows a head of an adolescent boy wearing a collar and looking down to the right. It is part of a drawing manual. Drawing manuals were common teaching tools for artists and amateurs learning to draw in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is a kind of pattern book for the aspiring draftsmen to copy, with concise prints depicting body parts?ears, eyes, hands, feet?and a range of head studies and figure types?children, adolescents, young women, old soldiers and saints?which provide models for students seeking to master the representation of the human body.
Made by Stefano della Bella after own design.
Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 16.8 x 13.5 cm (6.61 x 5.31 inch). Image size: 15 x 12 cm. (5.91 x 4.72 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Stain above head. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
BOY-ADOLESCENT-MALE-HEAD-PORTRAIT-DRAWING MANUAL | RBOS-A10-04
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published as plate 13 from a series of 25 in “I principii del disegno” (The Principles of Design), by Pierre Marriet I, c. 1641.
State: 2nd state of 2.
Reference: De Vesme 376.
Biography engraver: Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was an accomplished Florentine etcher and draftsman. Stefano della Bella produced this drawing manual in France, where he spent over a decade of his career. .
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