Design for a Cartouche (recto); Designs for Frames (verso)

Design for a Cartouche (recto); Designs for Frames (verso) by Stefano della Bella

Medium

Pen and brown ink, over red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, over black chalk (verso)

Dimensions

9 15/16 x 7 5/16in. (25.2 x 18.6cm)

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Phyllis Dearborn Massar and Robert J. Massar Gift and Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1975

Accession Number

1975.123

Tags

Ornament

About the Artist

Stefano della Bella · 16101664

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...

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