DETAILS
- Artist
- Stefano della Bella
- Date
- 1610
- Medium
- Black chalk with pink and gray washes
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- Italy
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
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THE ARTIST
Stefano della Bella
Stefano della Bella was a prolific 17th-century Italian printmaker, known for his dynamic etchings of everything from grand court spectacles to bustling street scenes in Florence, Rome, and Paris.
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