Essai d'un catalogue de l'œuvre d'Etienne de LaBelle, peintre et graveur florentin: disposé par ordre historique suivant l'année où chaque pièce a été gravée ; avec la vie de cet artiste ...
This 1772 Paris catalogue by Charles Antoine Jombert raisonné lists the prints of Florentine printmaker Stefano della Bella, arranged chronologically and prefaced with his life, written for collectors and print scholars. Its engravings are fine, crisp etched and burin plates: an allegorical scene of putti and a seated artist in clouds, a crowded street scene of beggars and swordsmen, and small ornamental vignettes with swags, urns and foliage, offering designers flourishing baroque ornament and clear figure groupings to adapt.
