La Mort sur un champ de bataille [Death on a Battlefield]
![La Mort sur un champ de bataille [Death on a Battlefield] by Stefano Della Bella](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/nga/thumb/la-mort-sur-un-champ-de-bataille-death-on-a-nga-127826.webp)
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (cut to platemark): 21.1 x 29 cm (8 5/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bert Freidus
Accession Number
2003.88.1
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...