Child teaching a dog to sit, the child seated to left against a wall, teaching the dog to sit on its hind legs, another child embracing a dog to right in the background
ca. 1660–64
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 5/16 in. (15.4 x 10.9 cm) Plate: 5 13/16 x 4 1/8 in. (14.8 x 10.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.440
Tags
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...