A horse drawn cart carrying people and goods, dead horse in the foreground, plate 1 from "Various Military Caprices" (Varii capricci militari)
Medium
Etching; second state of four
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 3 9/16 × 5 5/8 in. (9.1 × 14.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-277
Tags
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella|Pierre Mariette le fils · 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...