A Moorish horseman facing the left, standing and seated Turks in the middle ground, and other horsemen in the background, from 'Figures on Horseback' (Cavaliers nègres, polonais et hongrois)
Stefano della Bella
ca. 1651
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 7 5/16 × 7 3/16 in. (18.5 × 18.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Carl Joseph Ulmann, 1929
Accession Number
29.38.18
Tags
HorsesBow and ArrowMen
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...