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Female Dancer in a Costume for a Theatre Performance, c. 1658. 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.
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 · 23.9 × 16.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Female Dancer in a Costume for a Theatre Performance
- 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.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Alfred E. Hamill
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1610–1664
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.