Medium:Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, heightened with white
Dimensions:14 x 10 3/8 in. (35.6 x 26.3 cm.)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1987
Accession Number:1987.22
Claudine Bouzonnet Stella (French); Michel de Masso , by descent; Gaetano Minossi Romano; Thomas Talbot; Lady Beythswood , by descent; Christopher Methuen-Campbell (British), 1974; Christie's, New York , January 13, 1987, lot 106 (as "property of a gentleman")
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Recent Acquisitions: Drawings, Prints, and Photographs," September 22, 1988–January 8, 1989.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Seventeenth Century French Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum," February 2–April 25, 1996.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons. "Jacques Stella (1596-1657)," November 17, 2006–February 19, 2007.
Musée des Augustins. "Jacques Stella (1596-1657)," March 17, 2007–June 18, 2007.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 8–December 8, 2014.
Sir Anthony Blunt "Jaques Stella, the de Maso Family and Falsifications of Poussin" in Burlington Magazine. vol. 116, no. 861, December 1974, pp. 745-751.
Jacob Bean "Curatorial Reports and Departmental Accessions: Drawings." in Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1986 - June 30, 1987. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 117, New York, 1987, p. 24.
Jacob Bean Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 1987-1988. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p. 37, ill.
Hilliard T. Goldfarb From Fontainebleau to the Louvre: French Drawing from the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, December 13, 1989-January 28, 1990, cat. no. under no. 68, p. 141.
Maîtres français, 1500-1800. Dessins de la donation Mathias Polakovits à l'École des Beaux-Arts. Exh. cat. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Paris, April 19-June 25, 1989, cat. no. 22 (under), p. 84.
Sylvain Laveissière, Léna Widerkehr Jacques Stella (1596-1657). Exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, Nov. 17, 2006-Feb. 19, 2007, and at Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, Mar. 17-Jun. 18, 2007. Paris, 2006, cat. no. 136, pp. 214, 218, ill.
Le Dessin français au XVIIe siècle. Somogy. Paris, 2013, fig. no. 739, 315, ill.
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