Head of a young man in profile, from "Various portraits" (Recueil de Diverses Piéces Servant à l'Art de Portraiture)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Plate: 3 3/8 × 2 9/16 in. (8.5 × 6.5 cm) Sheet: 3 7/16 × 2 11/16 in. (8.8 × 6.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985
Accession Number
1986.1180.612
Tags
HeadsMenProfiles
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...