Child teaching a dog to sit, the child seated to left against a wall, teaching the dog to sit on its hind legs, another child embracing a dog to right in the background
ca. 1660–64
Medium
Etching; first state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 1/16 x 4 5/16 in. (15.4 x 10.9 cm) Plate: 5 13/16 x 4 1/8 in. (14.8 x 10.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.440
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
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...