A beggar woman with three children, one child on her shoulders, one child in her arms, and one child who walks in front of her to left, plate 22 from "Diversi capricci"
Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois
ca. 1644–47
Medium
Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/8 × 3 15/16 in. (8 × 10 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-219
Tags
ChildrenBoysInfantsWomen
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois · 1610–1664
Stefano della Bella (1610-1664) was one of the most prolific and versatile printmakers of the Italian Baroque period, leaving behind 1,052 prints and several thousand drawings that captured the vivid essence of 17th-century European life. Born in Florence on May 18, 1610, to a family of artists, he trained initially as a goldsmith before studying painting under Cesare Dandini and etching under Rem...