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[Boy Sleeping on a Bed.]
Elisabetta Sirani inv. F. Bartolozzi sculp.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins.
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.
De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 53324] £280.00
[n.d. c.1780.]
Stipple and etching, printed in sepia. 245 x 310mm (9¾ x 12¼"), with large margins.
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.
De Vesme: 1225.
[Ref: 53324] £280.00