Mounted Peasant with a Child in Her Arms, plate six from The Six Large Views of Rome and the Campagna
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.1 × 26.3 cm (11 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.); Sheet: 29.2 × 26.1 cm (11 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
131082
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...