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"

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" by Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois

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 · 16101664

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...

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