A woman seated to left holding a child, facing right in profile, conversing with a standing woman in center, carrying one child on her back and another in her arms, a church to left in background and boats to right in background, from 'Various figures and lands' (Diverse figure e paesi)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 3 3/4 × 6 1/8 in. (9.5 × 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mrs. William Greenough, 1936
Accession Number
36.35.7
Tags
InfantsWomenBoats
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...