A fan with a rebus on Love on one side Fortune on the other
Stefano della Bella
ca. 1639
Medium
Etching fashioned to form a fan with fringe around the edges and wooden handle
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Estate of Florance Waterbury, 1970
Accession Number
1970.610
Tags
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About the Artist
Stefano della Bella · 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...