(Ostrich hunt) from Animal Hunts

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(Ostrich hunt) from Animal Hunts

Artist Stefano della Bella (Italian, 1610-1664)

Date1654

Dimensions6 3/8 x 8 11/16 in. (16.1 x 22 cm) (trimmed on top)

MediumEtching

ClassificationPrints

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1982.190I

Not on View

Label TextWhile there may have been ostriches in the royal menagerie, there is no evidence that hunts took place. This scene is therefore a flight of the artist’s imagination.Published Referencescf. Massar, Phyllis Dearborn, Presenting Stefano della Bella: Seventeenth-century Printmaker<\i>, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971, p.109 (repr.)
See also 1982.190a

Reich, Paula, Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture, 1620-1820, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2021, p.16-17 [exh. catalogue].
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, & llustrated Books<\i>, Jan. 22, - June 24, 1983.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Dramatic Image: Baroque Prints of the 17th Century<\i>, February 25 - July 31, 2011.