A woman seated to left holding a child, facing right in profile, conversing with a standing woman in center, carrying one child on her back and another in her arms, a church to left in background and boats to right in background, from 'Various figures and lands' (Diverse figure e paesi)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed to plate): 3 3/4 × 6 1/8 in. (9.5 × 15.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Mrs. William Greenough, 1936
Accession Number
36.35.7
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
InfantsWomenBoats
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...