A poor woman to left, seen from behind, enveloping her child in a shawl, another woman seen from behind to left in background, a woman atop a horse and a man to right in background, plate 21 from "Diversi capricci"
Stefano della Bella|Nicolas Langlois
ca. 1644–47
Medium
Etching; third state of four (De Vesme)
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/8 in. × 4 in. (8 × 10.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-220
Tags
HorsesInfantsWomen
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...