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A peasant woman, seen from the back, holding a basket in center, a donkey to left and a horse with a pack on its back to right, plate 13 from "Diversi capricci"

A peasant woman, seen from the back, holding a basket in center, a donkey to left and a horse with a pack on its back to right, plate 13 from "Diversi capricci" by Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois

Medium

Etching; third state of four

Dimensions

Sheet: 3 3/8 × 4 1/16 in. (8.5 × 10.3 cm)

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917

Accession Number

17.50.17-222

Tags

WomenDonkeysHorses

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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