A shepherd sleeping on the ground at right, three horses at left, other horses and various figures to right, the Baths of Diocletian in the background, plate 12 from "Roman landscapes and ruins" (Paysages et ruines de Rome)
Medium
Etching; fourth state of nine (Talbierska)
Dimensions
Plate: 5 3/16 × 5 1/4 in. (13.2 × 13.3 cm) Sheet: 5 7/16 × 5 1/2 in. (13.8 × 13.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.17-245
Tags
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella|François 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...