A man sings and plays the hurdy gurdy, accompanied by a boy playing the triangle to right, a group of peasants dancing in a ring to left in background, plate 1 and title page for "Diversi capricci"
Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois
ca. 1644–47
Medium
Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 3/8 × 3 13/16 in. (8.5 × 9.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-204
Tags
Musical InstrumentsBoysMenDancingMusicians
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...