Two Different Halves of Cartouches Each Showing an Eagle Fighting a Serpent
Medium
Etching, proof with additions in brown pen and ink and black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 4 1/16 x 7 3/8 in. (10.3 x 18.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005
Accession Number
2005.377.58
Tags
EaglesSerpents
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...