Death Carrying a Child
Stefano della Bella
1610–64
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, over black chalk
Dimensions
12 15/16 x 8 1/16in. (32.9 x 20.5cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Peter Palumbo, 1983
Accession Number
1983.137
Tags
SkeletonsChildrenDeath
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...