St. John the Baptist Drawing Water from a Spring
ca. 1649
Medium
Etching with engraving; third state of four
Dimensions
Plate: 4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in. (11.1 × 8.3 cm) Sheet: 5 5/16 × 4 1/8 in. (13.5 × 10.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.542.24
Tags
About the Artist
Stefano della Bella|Rabasse · 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...