Rébus on the subject of love, a riddle depicted on drapery, below a landscape with a pyramid and two obelisks, a bust of a sphinx at bottom, an oval composition
Stefano della Bella
ca. 1637–42
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 3/16 x 10 1/16 in. (28.4 x 25.5 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.432.2
Tags
ObelisksMenCupidSphinx
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...