Head of a Young Man, Profile Turned Right, ca. 1641

  • Stefano della Bella, Italian, 1610-1664

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 4 3/4 × 6 1/8 inches (12.1 × 15.6 cm) Sheet: 7 1/8 × 9 inches (18.1 × 22.9 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S127.1

Watermark, on sheet, center: shield Stamp, verso: Scripps (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) 1887 [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in plate, lower left edge: S D Bella in et fecit Inscribed, center lower edge: Auec priuilege du Roy Inscribed, lower left corner: 12

(dealer, Brussels, Belgium)

September 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Stefano della Bella, Head of a Young Man, Profile Turned Right, ca. 1641, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S127.1.