Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Paolo Maupin French
After Jacques Stella French
Not on view
Jacques Stella's formative years were spent in Italy. He arrived in Florence about 1619 and moved to Rome in 1623, where he would spend approximately a decade before returning to France. Although he learned etching in Florence, his most ambitious printmaking venture was in collaboration with printmaker and publisher Paul Maupin in Rome. Based on drawings by Stella, the series included scenes and figures from the Old and New Testaments. Some were printed on white paper that was then washed by hand in blue wash. Others, like the present example, were printed on blue paper, with highlights in white gouache added by brush.
