![[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]](jpegs/21914.jpg)
[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Slight crease vertically down by torso.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
Ex: Norman Blackburn Collection. De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 21914] £140.00
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"). Slight crease vertically down by torso.
A naked little boy sleeping on the bed, lying on his back with two pillows underneath his head. Elisabetta Sirani (1636-1665), painter and etcher of Bologna. The daughter of painter Giovanni Andrea Sirani, she took over his studio when he became incapacitated by gout. Her success was cut short by her death at 27.
Ex: Norman Blackburn Collection. De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 21914] £140.00